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| Cardoso,L.M.; Pedrosa,M.L.; Silva,M.E.; Moraes,M.F.D.; Colombari,E.; Chianca-Jr.,D.A.. |
| Our hypothesis is that iron accumulated in tissue, rather than in serum, may compromise cardiovascular control. Male Fischer 344 rats weighing 180 to 220 g were divided into 2 groups. In the serum iron overload group (SIO, N = 12), 20 mg elemental iron was injected ip daily for 7 days. In the tissue iron overload group (TIO, N = 19), a smaller amount of elemental iron was injected (10 mg, daily) for 5 days followed by a resting period of 7 days. Reflex heart rate responses were elicited by iv injections of either phenylephrine (0.5 to 5.0 µg/kg) or sodium nitroprusside (1.0 to 10.0 µg/kg). Baroreflex curves were determined and fitted to sigmoidal equations and the baroreflex gain coefficient was evaluated. To evaluate the role of other than a direct effect... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Baroreflex; Iron overload; Heart rate; Blood pressure; Iron dextran; Deferoxamine. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2005000200008 |
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| Campos,T.V.O.; Jacobovitz,S.; Almeida,H.G.; Massensini,A.R.; Moraes,M.F.D.. |
| Several methods have been described to measure intraocular pressure (IOP) in clinical and research situations. However, the measurement of time varying IOP with high accuracy, mainly in situations that alter corneal properties, has not been reported until now. The present report describes a computerized system capable of recording the transitory variability of IOP, which is sufficiently sensitive to reliably measure ocular pulse peak-to-peak values. We also describe its characteristics and discuss its applicability to research and clinical studies. The device consists of a pressure transducer, a signal conditioning unit and an analog-to-digital converter coupled to a video acquisition board. A modified Cairns trabeculectomy was performed in 9 Oryctolagus... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Glaucoma; Intraocular pressure measurement; Trabeculectomy; Signal processing; Computer-assisted measurement. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2006000900013 |
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| Moraes,M.F.D.; Garcia-Cairasco,N.. |
| Current methods for recording field potentials with tungsten electrodes make it virtually impossible to use the same recording electrode also as a lesioning electrode, for example for histological confirmation of the recorded site, because the lesioning procedure usually wears off the tungsten tip. Therefore, the electrode would have to be replaced after each lesioning procedure, which is a very high cost solution to the problem. We present here a low cost, easy to make, high quality glass pipette-carbon fiber microelectrode that shows resistive, signal/noise and electrochemical coupling advantages over tungsten electrodes. Also, currently used carbon fiber microelectrodes often show problems with electrical continuity, especially regarding electrochemical... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Evoked potentials; Glass pipette-carbon fiber; Microelectrodes; Voltammetry. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1997001100010 |
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| Moraes,M.F.D.; Ferrarezi,C.; Mont'Alverne,F.J.A.; Garcia-Cairasco,N.. |
| We describe a low-cost, high quality device capable of monitoring indirect activity by detecting touch-release events on a conducting surface, i.e., the animal's cage cover. In addition to the detecting sensor itself, the system includes an IBM PC interface for prompt data storage. The hardware/software design, while serving for other purposes, is used to record the circadian activity rhythm pattern of rats with time in an automated computerized fashion using minimal cost computer equipment (IBM PC XT). Once the sensor detects a touch-release action of the rat in the upper portion of the cage, the interface sends a command to the PC which records the time (hours-minutes-seconds) when the activity occurred. As a result, the computer builds up several files... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Circadian rhythm; Automated acquisition; Actograms; FFT; Cosinor; Chronobiology. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1997000800015 |
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| Drumond,L.E.; Kushmerick,C.; Guidine,P.A.M.; Doretto,M.C.; Moraes,M.F.D.; Massensini,A.R.. |
| Epilepsy is a neurological disorder associated with excitatory and inhibitory imbalance within the underlying neural network. This study evaluated inhibitory γ-amino-butyric acid (GABA)ergic modulation in the CA1 region of the hippocampus of male Wistar rats and Wistar audiogenic rats (aged 90 ± 3 days), a strain of inbred animals susceptible to audiogenic seizures. Field excitatory postsynaptic potentials and population spike complexes in response to Schaffer collateral fiber stimulation were recorded in hippocampal slices before and during application of picrotoxin (50 µM, 60 min), a GABA A antagonist, and the size of the population spike was quantified by measuring its amplitude and slope. In control audiogenic-resistant Wistar rats (N = 9), picrotoxin... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Epilepsy; Extracellular recording; GABA; Hippocampus; Wistar audiogenic rats; Picrotoxin. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2011001000011 |
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| Queiroz,C.M.; Tiba,P.A.; Moreira,K.M.; Guidine,P.A.M.; Rezende,G.H.S.; Moraes,M.F.D.; Prado,M.A.M.; Prado,V.F.; Tufik,S.; Mello,L.E.. |
| Impaired cholinergic neurotransmission can affect memory formation and influence sleep-wake cycles (SWC). In the present study, we describe the SWC in mice with a deficient vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) system, previously characterized as presenting reduced acetylcholine release and cognitive and behavioral dysfunctions. Continuous, chronic ECoG and EMG recordings were used to evaluate the SWC pattern during light and dark phases in VAChT knockdown heterozygous (VAChT-KDHET, n=7) and wild-type (WT, n=7) mice. SWC were evaluated for sleep efficiency, total amount and mean duration of slow-wave, intermediate and paradoxical sleep, as well as the number of awakenings from sleep. After recording SWC, contextual fear-conditioning tests were used... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Sleep-wake cycle; Intermediate sleep; Acetylcholine; Contextual fear conditioning; Memory; Neurodegenerative disorders. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2013001000844 |
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