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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Express?o de zif-268 durante a aquisi??o, evoca??o e extin??o de uma mem?ria aversiva

Lemos, Nelson Alessandretti de Mello 17 April 2008 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:36:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NelsonAML.pdf: 877661 bytes, checksum: 9f0e44b26c1eea9bd528ee3676051107 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-04-17 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cient?fico e Tecnol?gico / In the behavioral paradigm of discriminative avoidance task, both short and long-term memories have been extensively investigated with behavioral and pharmacological approaches. The aim of the present study was to evaluate, using the abovementioned model, the hippocampal expression of zif-268 - a calcium-dependent immediate early gene involved with synaptic plasticity process - throughout several steps of memory formation, such as acquisition, evocation and extiction. The behavioral apparatus consisted of a modified elevaated plus-maze, with their enclosed arms disposed in "L". A pre-exposure to the maze was made with the animal using all arms enclosed, for 30 minutes, followed by training and test, during 10 minutes each. The between sections interval was 24h. During training, aversive stimuli (bright light and loud noise) were actived whenever the animals entered one of the enclosed armas (aversive arm). Memory acquisiton, retention and extinction were evaluated by the percentage of the total time spent exploring the aversive arm. The parameters evaluated (time spent in the arms and total distance traveled) were estimated with an animal tracking software (Anymaze, Stoelting, USA). Learning during training was estimated by the decrease of the time spent exploring the aversive arm. One hour after the beginning of each section, animals were anaesthetized with sodium-thiopental (i.p.) and perfused with 0.9% heparinized saline solution followed by 4% paraformaldehyde. Brains were cryoprotected with 20% sucrose, separeted in three blocks and frozen. The middle block, containing the hippocampus, was sectioned at 20 micro meters in the coronal plane and the resutant sections were submitted to zif-268 immunohistochemistry. Our results show an increased expression of zif-268 in the dentate gyrus (DG) during the evocation and extinction stages. There is a distinct participation of the DG during the memory evocation, but not during its acquisition. Inaddition, all hippocampal regions (CA1, CA3 and DG) presented an increased zif-268 expression during the process of extinction. / No paradigma comportamental da esquiva discriminativa, as mem?rias de curto e de longo prazo t?m sido extensivamente estudadas tanto comportamental quanto farmacologicamente. O objetivo do presente estudo foi avaliar, usando o modelo supracitado, a express?o hipocampal de zif-268 - gene imediato dependente de c?lcio implicado em processos de plasticidade sin?ptica - ao longo das diversas etapas da forma??o da mem?ria, como aquisi??o, evoca??o e extin??o. O aparato comportamental consistiu de um labirinto em crum elevado modificado, com seus bra?os fechados dispostos em "L". Uma pr?-exposi??o ao labirinto foi feita com os animais usando os quatro bra?os fechados, com dura??o de 30 minutos, seguida de um treino e de um teste, cada qual com dura??o de 10 minutos. O intervalo entre as sess?es foi de 24 horas. Durante o treino, um est?mulo aversivo (luz e ru?do intensos) era acionado sempre que os animais entravam em um dos bra?os fechados (bra?o aversivo). A aquisi??o, reten??o e extin??o da mem?ria foram avaliados pelo percentual de tempo total gasto explorando o bra?o aversivo. Os par?metros avaliados (tempo nos bra?os e dist?ncia percorrida) foram registrados por um software de rastreamento de animais (Anymaze, Stoelting, USA). O aprendizado durante o treino foi estimado pelo decr?scimo do tempo gasto explorando o bra?o aversivo. Uma hora ap?s o in?cio de cada sess?o, os animais foram anestesiados com uma overdose de tiopental s?dico (i.p.) e perfundidos com solu??o salina heparinizada 0.9% seguida de paraformalde?do a 4%. Os enc?falos foram crioprotegidos com solu??o de sacorose a 20%, separados em tr?s blocos e congelados. O bloco do meio, contendo o hipocampo, foi seccionado a 20 micro metros no plano coronal e as sec??es resultantes foram ent?o submetidas ? imunohistoqu?mica para zif-268. Nossos resultados evidenciam um aumento da express?o de zif-268 no giro denteado (GD) durante asetapas de evoca??o e extins?o. H? uma participa??o distinta no GD durante a evoca??o e extin??o da mem?ria, mas n?o durante a aquisi??o. Al?m disso, todas as ?reas hipocampais (CA1, CA3 e GD) apresentam uma eleva??o da express?o de zif-268 durante o processo de extin??o

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