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Provedor de dados: 	77	
País: 	Chile	
Título: 	Atrophy of the Nitrergic Myenteric Neurons in the Descending Colon Rats Submitted to Protein and Vitamin Deficiency	
Autores: 	Araújo,Eduardo José de Almeida; Hermes,Catchia; Miranda Neto,Marcílio Hubner de; Almeida,Elton Carlos de; Sant'Ana,Débora de Mello Gonçales.	
Data: 	2009-09-01	
Ano: 	2009	
Palavras-chave: 	Malnutrition; Large intestine; Enteric nervous system; Myenteric plexus; Neural plasticity.	
Resumo: 	Effects of protein and B-complex vitamin deficiency were assessed with respect to the morphometry of myenteric neurons in the descending colon of adult rats. Sixteen animals were divided into two groups: Control Group (CG, n=8) and Experimental Group (EG, n=8). The CG received 22% protein chow and the EG received 4% protein chow for 120 days. The descending colon was submitted to NADH- and NADPH-diaphorase technique in order to evidence nervous cells in the whole mounts preparations. In the EG, NADH-d positive neurons presented reduced nuclei, while NADPH-d positive neurons showed atrophy of the soma area (~41.7%) inducing an increase of the proportion occupied by the nucleus inside in the soma of these cells.	
Tipo: 	Journal article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022009000300047	
Editor: 	Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	International Journal of Morphology  v.27 n.3 2009