Atividade de enzimas que hidrolisam nucleotídeos e nucleosídeo de adenina em plaquetas de ratos infectados experimentalmente por Sporothrix schenckii

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Bruna Cipolatto
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Manancial - Repositório Digital da UFSM
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/5977
• topic: Esporotricose; Ectoenzimas; Agregação plaquetária; Plaquetas; Sporotrichosis; Ectoenzymes; Platelet aggregation; Platelets; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FARMACIA

Sporotrichosis is a cosmopolitan mycosis whose etiological agent is the fungus Sporothrix schenckii, affecting humans and several animals, especially felines. The most frequent form of the mycosis is the lymphocutaneous. The disseminated forms are less frequent and have been described mainly among immunocompromised patients. The Sporothrix schenckii is accidentally introduced in the human or animal body through wounds caused by thorns, wood splinters or any sharp object contaminated by the fungus. Cat as domestic animals may transmit sporotrichosis to humans through scratches and/or bite due to the large amount of yeast found in the lesions and the possibility of these animals carry the agent under nails and oral cavity. The infection activates an immune and inflammatory response, modulated by purinergic signaling, which involves extracellular purines, purinergic receptors and ectoenzymes. The purines are an important class of extracellular molecules which by interacting with specific receptors on the cell surface signaling pathways that mediate many important biological effects. The signaling induced by these molecules is directly correlated to the activity of enzymes on the surface of the cell membrane, the ectoenzymes. The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of sporotrichosis in the activity of ectoenzymes in platelets and its thrombus regulatory process. For this study, male Wistar rats were divided into 3 groups, where each group consisted of 10 animals (control, infected with clinical isolate of systemic action of Sporothrix schenckii and infected with clinical isolate of lymphocutaneous action of Sporothrix schenckii). After 28 days, blood was collected and the activity of certain ectoenzymes in platelets as well as the profile of platelet aggregation. The only change was observed in NTPDase activity, with an increase in ATP and ADP hydrolysis in platelets from rats experimentally infected with clinical isolate of lymphocutaneous action of Sporothrix schenckii. This change may be contributing to the reduction of extracellular ADP, which is responsible for the uncontrolled activation of platelets and trigger thrombogenic processes. Thus, it could also be protecting the body against the formation of thrombi and nodular lesions present in sporotrichosis. Then it is suggested that the purinergic system is involved in hemostasis and tromborregulação during infection by Sporothrix schenckii, avoiding excessive platelet aggregation and therefore the formation of thrombus.