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Moxidectin interference on motor activity of rats

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العنوان: Moxidectin interference on motor activity of rats
المؤلفون: Rodrigues-Alves, Patrícia de Sá e Benevides, Flório, Jorge Camilo, Lebrun, Ivo, Bernardi, Maria Martha, Spinosa, Helenice de Souza
المصدر: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology. August 2009 52(4)
بيانات النشر: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar, 2009.
سنة النشر: 2009
مصطلحات موضوعية: Moxidectin, GABA, motor coordination, rat, open field, wooden beam
الوصف: The present study investigated the effects of t moxidectin (MXD) in some parameters of rat motor function and neurochemical. The general activity in the open field and the motor coordination in the wooden beam were employed to evaluate the MXD effects. The results showed that, in the open field, even at high doses (2.0 and 20.0 mg/kg), the MXD did not alter the locomotion and the rearing frequencies. However, MXD was able to impair the motor coordination of the animals at wooden beam. Neurochemical studies of striatal GABA and dopamine neurotransmitters showed a reduced levels of dopamine and its metabolite, homovanillic acid, without interference on striatal GABA levels. Since GABAergic receptor stimulation had an inhibitory effect on dopaminergic striatal system, the decreased motor coordination could be attributed to an action of MXD on dopamine system via GABA activation.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: text/html
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1516-8913
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-89132009000400012
URL الوصول: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000400012
Rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edssci.S1516.89132009000400012
قاعدة البيانات: SciELO
الوصف
تدمد:15168913
DOI:10.1590/S1516-89132009000400012