Treinamento físico e antioxidantes enzimáticos no tecido cerebral de ratos diabéticos experimentais

• Autor(a) principal: Spagnol, Alexandre Roveratti [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/110423
• topic: Sports medicine; Medicina esportiva; Diabetes; Stress oxidativo; Exercícios físicos; Enzimas; Sistema nervoso central; Radicais livres (Quimica); Antioxidantes

Several studies have demonstrated different effects of physical exercise (FE) upon the antioxidant defense system. However, when it is associated with Diabetes Mellitus (DM) these effects require clarification, thus, the present study aimed to investigate the actions of a protocol of exercise on antioxidant system and other parameters in blood and brain tissue of diabetic rats . For that we used male Wistar rats divided in sedentary control (SC), trained control (TC), sedentary diabetic (SD) and trained diabetic (TD). The training session consisted of a swimming 1 hour per day for 5 consecutive days per two days of rest for 8 weeks, with a load equivalent to the anaerobic threshold of 5.8 % and of 4.2 % of the body mass for TC group and for DT group, respectively. We assessed the concentration of blood glucose, liver glycogen and of the thiobarbituric reactive substances (TBARS), the activity of the antioxidant enzymes: catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) in brain and blood. Also it was quantified the expression of SOD isoforms 1 and 2 in the cerebellum. As expected, exercise acted reducing blood glucose in the TD group. Although the FE has remained oxidative standards of sedentary control group , when associated with DM, it was unable to combat lipid peroxidation in both tissues. CAT activity was increased by DM in the brain, but in blood tissue the same activity was increased due to the EF associated to the DM or not. The activity of SOD (Cu/Zn, Mn and Fe) was not significantly different between the groups, indicating that its isoforms and their mechanisms of action acted homogeneously in brain tissue. However, in the cerebellum, exercise increased the protein expression of both isoforms of SOD (1 and 2) independently of pathological action indicating an improvement in antioxidant activity by the exercise. We can conclude that physical training promotes positive effects on the antioxidant defense, being a very important factor...