Homocysteine intracerebroventricular injection induces apoptosis in the Substantia Nigra cells and Parkinson like behavior in rat

Ataie, Amin; Ataie, Ramin; Mansouri, Zahra; Aghajanpour, Seyed Mohsen

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Ataie A, Ataie R, Mansouri Z, Aghajanpour S M. Homocysteine intracerebroventricular injection induces apoptosis in the Substantia Nigra cells and Parkinson like behavior in rat. Int J Mol Cell Med 2013; 2 (2) :80-85
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Homocysteine intracerebroventricular injection induces apoptosis in the Substantia Nigra cells and Parkinson like behavior in rat

Amin Ataie¹

, Ramin Ataie²

, Zahra Mansouri³

, Seyed Mohsen Aghajanpour⁴

1- Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center (CMBRC), Babol University of Medical Science, Babol, Iran. , ataieamin@yahoo.com
2- Pharmaceutical Sciences Research Center, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Mazandaran, University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
3- Neuroscience research center. Shahid beheshti University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
4- Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center (CMBRC), Babol University of Medical Science, Babol, Iran.

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Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease result from the death of dopamine-generating cells in the substantia nigra, a region of the midbrain the cause of this cell death is unknown. Homocysteine (Hcy) is a non-protein amino acid. It is a homologue of the amino acid cysteine. The elevated levels of homocysteine in plasma have been associated with a number of disease states. Hcy (2 µmol / µl) was injected intracerebroventricular (i.c.v) in rats, five days later, the locomotor activity was measured with open field apparatus, Also apoptosis was investigated in substantia nigra cells by immunohistochemical analysis. Hcy could decrease locomotor activities significantly in rats as well as it could induce apoptosis in substantia nigra cells. These results suggest that Hcy is a neurotoxic metabolite and may induce cell death in some nuclei in the brain.

Keywords: Homocysteine, parkinson disease, locomotor activity, substantia nigra, immunohistochemistry

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Type of Study: Original Article | Subject: Biomarkers (diagnosis & treatment)
Received: 2013/03/6 | Accepted: 2013/07/13 | Published: 2013/07/13