Estudo experimental da esclerose combinada subaguda de medula

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Marcia Maria Ferreira [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/143018; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/08-07-2016/000864494.pdf
• topic: Gastrectomia; Estomago - Cirurgia; Medula espinhal - Doenças; Deficiência de vitamina B 12; Vitamina B12; Spinal cord - Diseases

The B12 Vitamin deficiency in man, often associated with deficiency of intrinsic factor produced in the stomach, leading to several neurological and hematological disturbances. The best known alteration of the central nervous system is the demyelination and degeneration of the gracilis and cuneiform fascicles in the cervical spinal cord. This study aimed to try an experimental model of the disease, through total gastrectomy in rats. Animals were gastrectomized, submitted to oral polivitaminic supplementation, and 2-3 months later underwent nerve conduction studies. Electrical stimulation was done on the tail end, and electrical potentials were obtained at 3 points with equal distances from each other: near the anus (tail potential), lower spinal cord (lumbar potential) and the region of cervical spinal cord (cortical potential). The conduction velocity of the lower region of the spinal cord segment was named V1, the high spinal cord to the cortex was named V2 segment. After good quality records from 15 gastrectomized animals, the V1 and V2 segments were compared with data from 20 controls by the t Student test for independent samples, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey's multiple comparison test. Gastrectomized animals presented statistically significant reductions in the velocities for the V2 segment. The authors think they have obtained an experimental model of the disease in rats, which opens up broad prospects for therapeutic tests in the laboratory, with possibilities for future benefits to the man