Sodium intake, brain c-Fos protein and gastric emptying in cell-dehydrated rats treated with methysergide into the lateral parabrachial nucleus

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Mensuração da profundidade da porção lateral da fossa mandibular, em imagens radiográficas da ATM, obtidas pela técnica transcraniana, em pacientes com dentição decídua, mista e permanente

The author has verified the average depth of the mandibular fossa, in the X-ray image, using the oblique lateral transcranial technique from the right and left sides samples of each patient, which included a total of 176 patients, 87 male and 89 female. The patients were in following phases: deciduous dentítion (the patients had only deciduous teeth in the oral cavity or, if they had any permanent teeth, they could not be in occlusion), mixed dentition (the patients presented deciduous and permanent in the oral cavity) and permanent dentition (the patients had only permanent teeth in the oral cavity), until the eruption of the permanent third molars, in the region from São José dos Campos. São Paulo. Brazil. The patients were under treatment at the Dental School. UNESP (São Paulo State University). ln order to measure the depth of the mandibular fossa in millimeters an imaginary line was traced on the X-ray image, perpendicular to the other line that served as a reference, which was traced from the botton part of the articular eminence up to the tympanosquamous fissure. After the data were obtained and put in a data sheet, they underwent statistical analysis. The results showed that, in the average, the depth of the mandibular fossa in masculine sex is non-statistically signíficant larger than what was observed in feminíne sex, and the right side is larger than the left side, with significant statistical differences. However, only in permanent dentition, in masculine sex, the depth of the mandibular fossa on the right side is larger than on the left side with significant statistical differences

Clonidine and phenylephrine injected into the lateral preoptic area reduce water intake in dehydrated rats

In the present study, we investigated the effect of phenylephrine and clonidine (α1- and α2-adrenoceptor agonists, respectively) injected into the lateral preoptic area (LPOA) on the water intake induced by water deprivation in rats. In addition, the effects of prior injections of prazosin and yohimbine (α1- and α2-adrenoceptor antagonists, respectively) into the LPOA on the antidipsogenic action of phenylephrine and clonidine were investigated. After 30 h of water deprivation, the water intake of rats in a control experiment (saline injection) was 10.5 ± 0.8 ml/h. Injection of clonidine (5, 10, 20, and 40 nmol) into the LPOA reduced water intake to 6.3 ± 0.9, 4.9 ± 0.8, 3.6 ± 1.0, and 2.2 ± 0.7 ml/h, respectively. Similar reductions occurred after injection of 80 and 160 nmol phenylephrine into the LPOA (6.2 ± 1.6 and 4.8 ± 1.3 ml/h, respectively). Pretreatment with prazosin (40 nmol) abolished the antidipsogenic action of an 80-nmol dose of phenylephrine (11.3 ± 1.1 ml/h) and reduced the effect of a 20-nmol dose of clonidine (7.4 ± 1.4 ml/h). Yohimbine (20, 40, and 80 nmol), previously injected, produced no significant changes in the effects of either phenylephrine or clonidine. The present results show that phenylephrine and clonidine injected into the LPOA induce an antidipsogenic effect in water-deprived rat. They also suggest an involvement of α1-adrenoceptors in this effect. A possible participation of imidazole receptors in the effect of clonidine should also be taken into account. © 1993.

Análise do exercício físico e eletroestimulção do músculo tibial cranial após neurorrafia término-lateral do nervo fibular em ratos

Pós-graduação em Bases Gerais da Cirurgia - FMB

Role of alfa2-adrenoceptors in the lateral parabrachial nucleus in the control of body fluid homeostasis

Central α2-adrenoceptors and the pontine lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPBN) are involved in the control of sodium and water intake. Bilateral injections of moxonidine (α2-adrenergic/imidazoline receptor agonist) or noradrenaline into the LPBN strongly increases 0.3 M NaCl intake induced by a combined treatment of furosemide plus captopril. Injection of moxonidine into the LPBN also increases hypertonic NaCl and water intake and reduces oxytocin secretion, urinary sodium, and water excreted by cell-dehydrated rats, causing a positive sodium and water balance, which suggests that moxonidine injected into the LPBN deactivates mechanisms that restrain body fluid volume expansion. Pretreatment with specific α2-adrenoceptor antagonists injected into the LPBN abolishes the behavioral and renal effects of moxonidine or noradrenaline injected into the same area, suggesting that these effects depend on activation of LPBN α2-adrenoceptors. In fluid-depleted rats, the palatability of sodium is reduced by ingestion of hypertonic NaCl, limiting intake. However, in rats treated with moxonidine injected into the LPBN, the NaCl palatability remains high, even after ingestion of significant amounts of 0.3 M NaCl. The changes in behavioral and renal responses produced by activation of α2-adrenoceptors in the LPBN are probably a consequence of reduction of oxytocin secretion and blockade of inhibitory signals that affect sodium palatability. In this review, a model is proposed to show how activation of α2-adrenoceptors in the LPBN may affect palatability and, consequently, ingestion of sodium as well as renal sodium excretion.

A influência da fadiga nos músculos eversores durante a entorse lateral do tornozelo

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Limnology of a lateral lagoon system connected to a Neotropical reservoir (Rosana reservoir, São Paulo/Paraná, Brazil)

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Differences in the ichthyofauna feeding habits among lateral lagoons and the river channel in a large reservoir

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Increasing the lateral line length of drip irrigation systems

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