Lateral septum microglial changes and behavioral abnormalities of mice exposed to valproic acid during the prenatal period
| Autor: | Cristovam Wanderley Picanço Diniz, Ellen Rose Leandro Ponce de Leão, Dilza Nazaré Colares de Souza, Alinne Lorrany Gomes dos Santos, Antonio Morais da Silveira Júnior, Larissa Victória Barra de Moura, Marcia Consentino Kronka Sosthenes, Daniel Guerreiro Diniz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0301 basic medicine
Elevated plus maze medicine.medical_specialty Autism Spectrum Disorder GABA Agents medicine.medical_treatment Transtorno Aut?stico / gen?tica Open field Mice 03 medical and health sciences Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Internal medicine medicine Animals Weaning Social Behavior Saline Valproic Acid Behavior Animal business.industry virus diseases Doen?as do Sistema Nervoso / gen?tica medicine.disease Disease Models Animal 030104 developmental biology Endocrinology In utero Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects Reflex Female Septal Nuclei lipids (amino acids peptides and proteins) ?cido Valproico / an?lise Microglia business Cartilagens Nasais 030217 neurology & neurosurgery geographic locations medicine.drug Microglia / citologia |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Digital do Instituto Evandro Chagas (Patuá) Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC) instacron:IEC |
| Popis: | Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil / Minist?rio da Sa?de. Secretaria de Vigil?ncia em Sa?de. Instituto Evandro Chagas. Laborat?rio de Microscopia Eletr?nica. Ananindeua, PA, Brasil. Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Par?. Instituto de Ci?ncias Biol?gicas. Hospital Universit?rio Jo?o de Barros Barreto. Laborat?rio de Investiga??es em Neurodegenera??o e Infec??o. Bel?m, PA, Brazil. Most animal model studies of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been performed in males, which may be a reflex of the 3-times higher prevalence in boys than in girls. For this reason, little is known about the mechanisms underlying disease progression in females, and nothing is known about potential associations between microglial changes in the lateral septum (LS) and adult female cognition. Prenatal exposure to valproic acid (VPA) in mice has been widely used as an experimental model of autism-like behaviors associated with cellular changes. However, no study has reported the influence of VPA exposure in utero and its consequences on limbic system-dependent tasks or the microglial response in the LS in adult female mice. We compared the exploratory activity and risk assessment in novel environments of BALB/c control mice to mice exposed in utero to VPA and estimated the total number of microglia in the LS using an optical fractionator. On day 12.5 of pregnancy, females received diluted VPA or saline by gavage. After weaning, VPA exposed or control pups were separately housed in standard laboratory cages. At 5 months of age, all mice underwent behavioral testing and their brain sections were immunolabelled using IBA-1 antibody. In the open field test, VPA group showed a greater distance traveled, which was accompanied by less immobility, less time spent on the periphery and a greater number, crossed lines. Similar findings were found in the elevated plus maze test, where VPA mice traveled greater distances, immobility was significantly higher than that of control and VPA group spent less time on the closed arms of apparatus. Stereological analysis demonstrated higher microglial total number and density in the LS of VPA mice, as the cell count was greater, but the volume was similar. Therefore, we suggest that an increase in microglia in the LS may be part of the cellular changes associated with behavioral dysfunction in the VPA model of ASD. |
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