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ArticleMetabolic brain disease2012

Region-specific changes in activities of cell death-related proteases and nitric oxide metabolism in rat brain in a chronic unpredictable stress model.

Anna Tishkina, Alexey Rukhlenko, Mikhail Stepanichev, Irina Levshina, Natalia Pasikova, Mikhail Onufriev, Yulia Moiseeva, Alexey Piskunov, Natalia Gulyaeva

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Anna TishkinaDepartment of Functional Biochemistry of the Nervous System, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Butlerova str., 5A, Moscow, 117485, Russia.
Alexey Rukhlenko
Mikhail Stepanichev
Irina Levshina
Natalia Pasikova
Mikhail Onufriev
Yulia Moiseeva
Alexey Piskunov
Natalia Gulyaeva
Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology · RURussian Academy of Sciences · RU

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Abstract

Effects of a chronic combined unpredictable stress on activities of two cell death-related proteases, calpain and cathepsin B, were studied along with indices of nitrergic system in rat brain structures. Male Wistar rats were subjected to a 2-week-long combined stress (combination of unpaired flash light and moderate footshock associated with a white noise session). Stress resulted in a significant loss in the body and thymus weight and increased defecation in the open field test, though neither motor and exploratory activity, nor plasma corticosterone differed from the respective control levels. Decreased calpain activity and increased cathepsin B activity were demonstrated in the hippocampus of stressed rats (previously we have shown that caspase-3 activity was significantly suppressed in the brain of rats subjected to same type of stress). A significant reduction in the number of NOS-containing neurons was accompanied by a chronic stressinduced decline in NOS activity in the neocortex. Similar changes were observed in the hippocampus. However, levels of NO metabolites were elevated in both structures. Thus, stress-induced structural modifications in the brain may be mediated by disturbances in the nitrergic system and increased lysosomal proteolysis.

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AnimalsBody WeightBrain ChemistryCalpainCaspase 3Cathepsin BCell CountCell DeathCorticosteroneHippocampusImmunohistochemistryMaleNitratesNitric OxideNitric Oxide SynthaseNitritesCalpainCaspase 3Cathepsin BCorticosteroneNitratesNitric OxideNitric Oxide SynthaseNitritesPeptide Hydrolases

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