Avaliação do modelo de hiperargininemia sobre parâmetros neuroquímicos, moleculares e compartamentais em peixe-zebra (Danio rerio): uma abordagem sobre o sistema purinérgico

• Autor(a) principal: Capiotti, Katiucia Marques
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_RS
• Texto Completo: http://tede2.pucrs.br/tede2/handle/tede/5430
• topic: BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR; TOXICIDADE; ARGININA; PEIXES - PESQUISAS; ANIMAIS - EXPERIÊNCIAS; CNPQ::CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::BIOLOGIA GERAL

Hyperargininemia is a rare disease caused by an innate error of the metabolism (EIM) biochemically characterized by the accumulation of arginine in body tissues due to arginase deficits. Mental retardation and other neurological symptoms are common in hyperargininemic patients. Several mechanisms have been proposed to describe the neurotoxicity of hiperargininemia, such as changes in antioxidant enzyme systems and neurotransmission. The purinergic system is an important pathway for which uses extracellular nucleotides and nucleosides as signaling molecules. The extracellular ATP degradation and the consequent adenosine production are performed by a cellular surface enzyme family known as ectonucleotidases, which include the NTPDases (nucleoside triphosphate diphosphoohydrolases) and the ecto-5´-nucleotidase. Adenosine is a neuromodulator that acts through the activation of P1 metabotropic receptors (A1, A2A, A2B, A3) and plays a role as an endogenous neuroprotector. Thus, the NTPDase and ecto-51-nucleotidase control the levels of nucleotides and nucleosides, modulating the purinergic system. Whereas the zebrafish is an important tool for the study of developmental biology and the hiperargininemia is a disease that occurs in the early stages of development, the objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of arginine exposure in zebrafish larvae on different biochemical, behavioral, and molecular parameters. The results showed that exposure to arginine at a concentration of 0.1 mM in larvae of the zebrafish from to 7 days post-fertilization (dpf) was capable of changing ectonucleotidase activities, promoting an increase of ATP, ADP, and AMP hydrolysis and as causing morphological changes, such as larvae body size reduction, but did not alter the locomotor activity of animals. Acute arginine exposure (1h) in adult zebrafish was not able to alter the activity of ectonucleotidases. These data demonstrate that arginine can affect the ectonucleotidase activities and morphological parameters in zebrafish larvae, suggesting that the purinergic system is a target for neurotoxic effects induced by arginine in the early stages of developmental.