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| Author(s): |
Ana Carolina Cardoso dos Santos Durão
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) |
| Defense date: | 2014-08-21 |
| Examining board members: |
Tania Marcourakis;
Carolina Demarchi Munhoz;
Ana Paula Ligeiro de Oliveira
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| Advisor: | Tania Marcourakis |
| Abstract | |
Cigarette smoking is a major cause of chronic non-communicable diseases, affecting approximately 1.6 billion people up to 2030. Tobacco control policies were created in order to prevent contamination of non-smokers by environmental tobacco smoke. Described primarily in the lung, little is known about the action of cigarette smoke in the central nervous system (CNS). The present study aims to evaluate the effects of cigarette smoke exposure for 15 consecutive days in a process of systemic inflammation induced by LPS. To this so, C57BL/6 mice were exposed to a mixture of mainstream and sidestream cigarette smoke reference 3R4F (University of Kentucky, USA). In the last day, animals were challenged with LPS iv. (0.1 µg/animal) or saline and divided into the following groups: CO - control, FU - cigarette smoke, LPS - LPS challenge and FPS - cigarette smoke and LPS challenge. The samples were processed in order to perform the RT-PCR analysis for IL-6, IL-1β, TNF-α, TLR2, TLR4 and iNOS primers, ELISA assay of IL-6, IL-10, IL-1β and TNF-α and western blot for p65. Our results showed an increase in transcription of TLR2, TLR4 and iNOS genes in all structures analyzed within 2 hours of euthanasia after LPS challenge in the FPS group compared to all other groups. Beside this 4 hours after challenge was observed an increase of IL-1β and TNF genes in both groups that received the challenge with LPS in the hippocampus, striatum, cortex and cerebellum, suggesting that the influence of cigarette smoke can be observed only 2 hours after the challenge, justified since in a time period of 4 hours we can only observe the effect of LPS. The results suggest that cytokine assay, between 4 and 6 hours after challenge, the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10 is decreased in FPS group in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex. But it is possible to observe a statistically significant increase in the same cytokine in the cerebellum exposed only to cigarette smoke group. Our data suggest that the inflammatory process in the CNS occurs differently depending on the region studied, and the period analyzed. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/15435-7 - CIGARETTE SMOKE EFFECTS IN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM |
| Grantee: | Ana Carolina Cardoso dos Santos Durão |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |