The effects of antivenom administrations on the brain tissue of experimentally envenomed pregnant rats and their pups with Androctonus crassicauda scorpion venom during organogenesis period.

Autor: Demirel MA; Laboratory Animals Care and Research Unit, Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Gazi University, 06330, Ankara, Turkey. Electronic address: aysedemirel@gazi.edu.tr., Alcigir ME; Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kirikkale University, 71450, Kirikkale, Turkey., Ozkan O; Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Cankiri Karatekin University, 18100, Çankırı, Turkey., Turkmen MB; Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kirikkale University, 71450, Kirikkale, Turkey.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology [Toxicon] 2021 Sep; Vol. 200, pp. 13-18. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 29.
DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2021.06.011
Abstrakt: This study aims to show the changing effects of Androctonus crassicauda venom and A. crasicauda specific antivenom during pregnancy in brain tissue of dams and their pups. Totally, 12 pregnant-Wistar Albino rats were randomly divided into two groups as venom-antivenom administration (n = 6) and control groups (n = 6). In venom-antivenom administration group (VAV), the sublethal dose of A. crassicauda venom dissolved in 1 mL physiological saline solution was subcutaneously (s.c.) injected into pregnant rats during organogenesis period (between 7 and 13 days of pregnancy). Four hours after each venom injection, 1 mL/s.c. dose of the specific anti-venom was administered to rats of VAV group. The rats in control group were given sterile saline solution 1 mL/s.c. In both groups, the fetuses were surgically delivered on the 21st day of pregnancy; dams and pups were sacrificed on postnatal 21 days, and their brain tissues were removed. The brain tissue of dams and their pups were evaluated histopathologically and immunohistochemically. To show the neuronal damages, 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine (8-OHDG) and amyloid beta precursor protein (ABPP) immunoexpressions were scored in cerebrum, cerebellum, pons and medulla oblongata of brain. To show the neuroprotection, reelin and beta-arrestin immunoexpressions were scored again in the same way. In this context, 8-OHDG immunoexpressions were increased in neocortex, hippocampus and nucleus accumbens when compared with that of control group. Amyloid beta precursor protein was negative in both groups. Reelin and beta-arrestin partly increased in fore and mid brain of VAV group as a reaction against neuronal damages when compared with that of control pups. The authors believe that prompt intervention using anti-venom to scorpion envenomation can partly stop neuronal damages. This neuroprotection may be increased to high and serial doses of anti-venom to save neonatal lives.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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