Publicação: Morphometric and quantitative evaluation of the NADH-diaphorase positive myenteric neurons of the jejunum of streptozotocin-diabetic rats supplemented with acetyl-L-carnitine
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In this study we investigated the effect of the acetyl-L-carnitine (ALC) supplementation on the myenteric neurons of the jejunum of rats made diabetic at the age of 105 days by streptozotocin (35 mg/kg body weight). Four groups were used: non-diabetic (C), non-diabetic supplemented with ALC (CC), diabetic (D), diabetic supplemented with ALC (DC). After 15 weeks of diabetes induction the blood was collected by cardiac puncture to evaluate glycaemia and glycated haemoglobin. Next the animals were killed and the jejunum was collected and subjected to whole-mount preparation to evidence the myenteric neurons through the histochemical technique of the NADH-diaphorase. The neuronal counts were made in 80 microscopic fields, in tissue samples of five animals of each group. The profiles of the cell bodies of 1000 neurons per group were analysed. Diabetes induced a significant increase in the area of the cell body and decrease in the number of NADH-diaphorase positive myoenteric neurons. ALC suplementation to the diabetic group promoted smaller hypertrophic effects and less neuronal loss than in the myoenteric neurons of the diabetic rats, and in addition diminished the body weight decrease and reduced the fasting glycaemia. © 2005 Blackwell Verlag.
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cytochrome b5 reductase, glycosylated hemoglobin, levacecarnine, streptozocin, animal cell, animal experiment, animal tissue, blood sampling, body weight, cell count, controlled study, diabetes mellitus, diabetic diet, diet restriction, drug effect, drug screening, glucose blood level, heart, histochemistry, jejunum, male, microscopy, morphometrics, myenteric plexus, nerve cell, nonhuman, puncture, quantitative analysis, rat, sample, streptozocin diabetes, supplementation, tissue, weight reduction, Acetylcarnitine, Animals, Blood Glucose, Cell Proliferation, Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental, Histocytochemistry, Jejunum, Male, Myenteric Plexus, NADH Dehydrogenase, Neurons, Rats, Rats, Wistar, Animalia
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Journal of Veterinary Medicine Series C: Anatomia Histologia Embryologia, v. 34, n. 3, p. 154-158, 2005.
