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| Author(s): |
Marcelo Cardoso de Lima
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2012-02-20 |
| Examining board members: |
Jose Antonio Rocha Gontijo;
Julio Sergio Marchini;
Laura Sterian Ward;
Magda Lahorgue Nunes;
Simone Appenzeller
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| Advisor: | Jose Antonio Rocha Gontijo |
| Abstract | |
Recent studies have shown that the central nervous system, during development, can be influenced by alterations in the intrauterine environment. This organizational phenomenon is termed 'early-life programming'. Here, in maternal protein-deprived offspring model, we focus on adult hypertension development, hypothalamic changes and renal function disorders as an outcome and confirm the hypothalamus as a structure in which there are early and permanent changes that underlie the developing hypertension. The present study shows that LP male pup body weight was significantly reduced when compared to that of NP pups. However, the body masses at 12-days-old and 16-wk-old were similar to observed in NP age-matched group. Furthermore, the immunoblotting analysis in the current study demonstrated a significantly decreased expression of type 1 AngII receptors in the entire hypothalamic tissue extract of LP rats at 12 days of age and unaltered expression in16-wk-old rats, compared to that observed in NP offspring. The unchanged AT1R expression by blotting in the whole hypothalamic extract of 16- wk LP rats may results of uneven expression of protein, revealed by immunohistochemistry, of different analyzed hypothalamic structures. Conversely, the expression of the type 2 AngII receptors in 12-days and 16-wk-old LP hypothalamus was significantly increased, when compared with the NP agematched group. The current data shows the influence of central AngII administration on spontaneous water consumption in a concentration-dependent fashion, but also demonstrated that the water intake response to graded AngII concentrations was strikingly attenuated in 16-wk-old LP, compared with agematched NP controls. These results may be related with decreased brain AVP expression showed in maternal protein-restricted offspring. The present investigation also shows an early and pronounced decrease in fractional urinary sodium excretion in maternal protein-restricted offspring. It also shows a decreased central expression of MR and GR associated, reciprocally, with enhanced immunoreactivity to POMC e ACTH. The decreased FENa was accompanied by a fall in FEPNa and occurred despite unchanged CCr and an enhanced FEPPNa. All these effects was associated with a significant enhance in arterial blood pressure in the LP group but, the precise mechanism of these phenomena remains unknown (AU) | |