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LIPID PEROXIDATION INDUCED BY IRON COHPLEX IN RAT BRAIN= AN iN VlVO HODEL Ciu£fi
H.,
Zilletti
Niccolai
G. 0
G.,
Luzzi S.,
Franchi N i c h e l i
V, le 6. B. Horgagni, Key words:
and C l i n i c a l
iron complex,
(hemorrhagic or the
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peroxidatJont
lipid
in
severa)
ischemic c o r t i c a l
decompartmentalization
£oliowed
HDA, l i p o ~ u s c i n e - l i K e compounds
pathological
conditions
intracerebral
infarction,
peroxidation
o£
lipid
~ractions
both in v i t r o
and in v i v o .
in
(Payan et a l . ,
components o~
tissues
and
discharges,
electrical
peroxidation,
lipid
acute b r a i n disease (Triggs and Willmore,
i n j e c t i o n s o£ iron complexes,
the ~ree metal, used
(Huller,
w i t h the p r o t e i n
rats
below the exposed dura. (200
saccharose
solution
pg
solution.
abnormality
and
an
p e r o x i d a t i v e e£fect
o~
hydroxide-carbohydrate
ligand
replaced
(apo~erritin)
small
hole was made into the r i g h t
to the bregw~;
ca~varium,
T r e a t e d animals received 3.3 mg whereas
controls
were
o~
iron-
injected
pl at the same c o n c e n t r a t i o n and pH were K i l l e d
animals
the i n j e c t i o n was performed
oY
with
the
iron
7
days
by d e c a p i t a t i o n 2 hours or
Samples ~rom the i n j e c t e d and the c o n t r o l a t e r a l
peroxidation
animals did not show
any
apparent
or
c o n v u l s i v e symptomatology,
neither
nor
during the f o l l o w i n g days.
Intracortical
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inmediately
were
products
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hemi-
plane at the level o f corpus callosum,
~or the d e t e r m i n a t i o n o~ ~luorescent l i p i d
Treated
injection,
10
cut along a h o r i z o n t a l
( F l e t c h e r et a l . ,
mimicking
(250-300 g) were placed in
Fe) in 10 p l ,
Animals
the i n j e c t i o n .
processed
and
tff74).
Wistar
saccharate
spheres,
injected
behaviourai
a polynuclear ~erric
...~nposterior and 3 nm l a t e r a l
a~ter
subcellular
lesion.
s t e r e o t a x i c apparatus and a d r i l l e d
complex
and
in order to o b t a i n a slow development o~ the b r a i n
Anaesthetized
nm
is
release
complex, s i m i l a r t o ~ e r r i t i n ,
1.6
Iron
believed to g r a d u a l l y
the i r o n - s a c c h a r a t e ,
by c a r b o h y d r a t e
tissue
1984).
aim o f our research was to study the l i p i d
intracortical
the
Ferrous and ~ e r r i c c h l o r i d e
a b n o r m a l i t i e s associated w i t h
CNS
autoxidative
into r a t b r a i n c o r t e x caused ~ocal e p i l e p t i f o r m
The
the
t970).
undergoing u n i v a l e n t redox r e a c t i o n s ,
enzymatic
o~
hematoma, e t c . )
o~ iron compounds present
the r e l e a s e o# the ~ree metal
by
Known to c a t a l i z e ,
t
and
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common ~actor
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S.
L.
Department o~ P r e c l i n i c a l
is
6entilini
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behavioural after
the
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n o~
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right
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Fig. t. MDA (a) and l i p i d - s o l u b l e f l u o r e s c e n c e (b) levels homogenates o f r a t b r a i n c o r t e x 7 days a f t e r the i n t r a c o r t i c a l In brackets number o f e x p e r i m e n t s , Data are means ~ SEM. . : p
and o f
days
after
developing
lipofuscine-]iKe
the
injection.
of
lipid-soluble
significant
(Fig.
1) seven
change~
no s i g n i f i c a n t
fluorescence
in
increase o f malonaldehyde
compounds in t h e b r a i n t i s s u e
On the c o n t r a r y j
observed injection.
and HDA were found
~
in h
the after
treatment. In
conclusion,
the
intracortical
induces
lipid
peroxidation
to
slow
and
be
pathological further
its
investigating this
Fiectcher
Dillard
is
Therefore+ the r o l e o f
drugs a f f e c t i n g B.L•,
in the r e g i o n o f
development
symptom.
administration
iron
saccharate
This process appears
injection•
not
of
accompanied
by
any
t h i s model r e p r e s e n t s an u s e f u l iron-induced
evident tool
brain
lipid
peroxidation
(t973).
Anal,
Biochem.
for and
process,
C.d. arid Tappel A.L.
Payan H.+ Toga N. and B e r a r d - B a d i e r H U l l e r A• (1974).
Arzneim.
Ohkawa H.. Ohlshi
N, and Yagi K.
T r i g g s W.J. and W i i l n ~ r e
H.
(t970)•
Epilepsia
tip
80-94.
Forsch• 24: 880-883.
L.J.
(1979).
{1984).
J.
Anal.
Biochem• 95:
Neurochem.
351-358.
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52:
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