Nasibeh Akbari; Mahmoud Allahdadi Dalmani; Taghi Lashkar Blouki; Mehdi Godarzvand
Volume 23, Issue 1 , May and June 2016, , Pages 66-74
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Purpose: Epilepsy, as a plastic change lead to hyperexcitability and structural change. Kindling is the process of repetitive subconvulsive electrical or chemical stimulation induced synaptic and circuit alterations. Lateral hypothalamus (LH) contains the main constellation of orexinergic neurons involved ...
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Purpose: Epilepsy, as a plastic change lead to hyperexcitability and structural change. Kindling is the process of repetitive subconvulsive electrical or chemical stimulation induced synaptic and circuit alterations. Lateral hypothalamus (LH) contains the main constellation of orexinergic neurons involved in sleep and waking and even excitability with high numbers of receptors in hippocampus. Thus, we investigate the effect of LH inactivation on kindling development and kindling induced hippocampal neuronal population. Method: Pentylenetetrazol (PTZ; 45 mg/kg) was used to induce chemical kindling every 48 h up to 13 injections, intraperitoneally. Three consecutive 4 or 5 seizure stages were criteria for kindling. Lidocaine (2%) was injected stereotaxically into right LH, 0.5 h prior to PTZ administration. Nissl staining was used to demonstrate neuronal population survival in CA3 and hilar regions of hippocampus. Results: LH inactivation prevented PTZ kindling development. Although kindling increased neuronal dispersion in CA3 and hilar regions, LH inactivation was unable to reduce the dispersion. Moreover, kindling did not affect neuronal survival in CA3 and hilus, qualitatively. Conclusion: It is concluded that kindling induced structural changes is to some extent independent of kindling development and it is not prevented by kindling inhibition through LH inactivation.
Mohammad Javan; Seyyed Javad Mirnajafizadeh; Mehdi Godarznavd; Taghi Tarihi
Volume 16, Issue 2 , July and August 2009, , Pages 62-71
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Background and purpose: Antioxidants and vitamin D3 are currently used for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases although their mechanism of action is not well understood. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of combined administration of vitamins D3 and E on demyelination ...
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Background and purpose: Antioxidants and vitamin D3 are currently used for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases although their mechanism of action is not well understood. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of combined administration of vitamins D3 and E on demyelination cell death and remyelination of rat hippocampus following the local ethidium bromide (EB) injection. Methods and Materials: This experimental study was conducted on 32 Spague rats. After EB-induced demyelination animals received intraperitoneal vitamin E (100 mg/kg) and D3 (5µg/kg) together for 7 days. The extent and intensity of demyelination were studied by luxol fats blue staining the activated caspase-3 genes and MBP. The study data were analyzed in SPSS using one-way ANOVA and Tukey post test. Results: The findings revealed that the combined administration of vitamins E and D3 for 7 days caused a significant reduction in the expression of activated caspase-3 (10±0) (p