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Mello,Sônia A.; Marese,Angélica C.M.; Brancalhão,Rose M.C.; Zanoni,Jacqueline N.; Natali,Maria Raquel M.. |
During the ageing process the enteric nervous system undergoes morphofunctional changes, such as enteric neurodegeneration. Neuronal death can be attributed to increase radicals free, and ascorbic acid (AA), known antioxidant, could minimize damage cause by oxidative stress. The objective of this study is to analyse the behaviour of morphoquantative myenteric neurons in the duodenum of adult Wistar rats with aged 90 (C90), 345 (E345) and 428 (E428) days, as well as animals of the same age who received ascorbic acid supplementation for 120 days (EA345 and EA428). Whole-mount preparations of muscle layer from the duodenum of the animals were immunostained by the method myosin V. 80 microscopic fields were quantified (14.8 mm2/animal) and measured 100... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Aging; Antioxidant; Enteric nervous system; Immunohistochemistry. |
Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652013000100337 |
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Sant'Ana,Débora M.G.; Araújo,Eduardo J.A.; Ramos,Diego H.; Hermes-Uliana,Catchia; Natali,Maria Raquel M.. |
The effects of severe protein malnutrition (4%) on myenteric neurons of Wistar rat duodenum, in relation to a standard 22%-protein diet for rodents, were assessed in this study. Segments of the duodenum from 10 rats from each nutritional group were submitted to the elaboration of whole mounts - 5 stained with Giemsa to determine the total population of myenteric neurons and the others stained by a histochemical method to detect nervous cells through the NADPH-diaphorase enzyme activity for studying the subpopulation of nitrergic neurons. The area of 100 neurons per animal, totalizing 2,000 neurons, were randomly measured by using the Image Pro-Plus®software. Malnourished rats presented 34.38% lower body weight and 10.60% duodenum length reduction when... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Enteric nervous system; Malnutrition; Myenteric plexus; Nitrergic neurons. |
Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652012000300022 |
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