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Avaliação do método de fotooxidação do DiI por diodo emissor de luz (led): aspectos morfológicos de células horizontais da retina humana
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2013-11-25) FARIAS, Flávia Moura Gaia; SILVA FILHO, Manoel da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2032152778116209
The analysis of cell morphology is a crucial aspect of neurobiology, since the relationship between form and function can define the physiological processes in health and disease. One of the main methods to evaluate cell morphology is through photooxidation of intracellular fluorescent markers, among which is the perchlorate of 1,1 '-dioctadecyl-3, 3,3', 3'-tetramethyl-indocarbocianina (DiI) a lipophilic carbocyanine that can make living or fixed cells. The DiI was chosen for this work because, among other factors, it is used for important studies of cell morphology. As a model for evaluating the quality of photooxidation of the apparatus constructed for this purpose, horizontal cells of human retina were elected in order to proceed with morphometric study these cells further, in view of the lack of studies with this approach in human retina. This study evaluated the quality of the DiI method photooxidation via LED and used the horizontal cells of the human retina as a model. The material was obtained from the Eye Bank of Ophir Loyola Hospital and sequence dissected, labeled with DiI crystals and photooxided with the LED device. The images resulting from the new method of lighting fluorescent tracer showed photooxidation of high-quality detailed neuronal morphology, similar to the results obtained in reactions of convencional photoconversion with a microscope, which indicates that the device maintains the efficiency of the photooxidation for revealing fine details of cellular morphology, including the advantages of larger areas of tissue processing and a considerable cost reduction for the use of microscopy dispensed into the process.
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Influência do tamanho da ninhada sobre o declínio cognitivo e a morfologia microglial da camada molecular do giro denteado em rattus novergicus
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2012-10-11) OLIVEIRA, Marcus Augusto de; DINIZ, Cristovam Wanderley Picanço; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2014918752636286; DINIZ JUNIOR, José Antônio Picanço; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3850460442622655
It has been proposed that aging is associated with neuroinflammation in the central nervous system but it is not known whether microglial changes induced by aging are affected by early in life effects of litter size. On the other hand the molecular layer of dentate gyrus has been recognized as the main target of the perforant pathway, whose synaptic integrity is essential for the recognition memories of identity and spatial location. In the present report we investigated if aging cognitive decline and microglial morphological changes in the molecular layer are influenced by litter size changes early in life and aging. To assess these questions Wistar rats suckled in litters of six or 12 pups/mother were raised sedentarily in groups of 2-3 from the 21st post-natal day onwards. At four (mature adult) or 23 (aged) months of age were submitted to spatial memory and object identity recognition tests, sacrificed, perfused with aldehyde fixatives and had their brains processed for selective microglia/macrophages immunolabeling with anti-IBA-1 antibodies. A representative sample of the immunolabeled cells in the molecular layer of dentate gyrus was analyzed after three-dimensional reconstruction with Neurolucida software (Microbright Field Inc.) and morphological features of each cell were quantified by Neuroexplorer (Microbright Field Inc.). It was found that Wistar rats maintained all life in standard laboratory cages showed spatial memory deficits in both mature and aged subjects no matter the litter size. On the other hand all aged subjects independent of the litter size had their object recognition identity memory impaired. Microglial morphological analysis revealed that cell soma area and perimeter and branches volume seem to be more intensely affected by aging and that these changes are mainly associated with animals from large litters. In addition it was observed important shrinkage and thickening of the microglial branches in aged individuals in higher proportion in the group from large litters. Taken together the results suggest that spatial memory seems to be more susceptible to the aging process than object recognition and that these changes are associated with distinct effects on the soma and branching patterns of microglia of molecular layer from young and aged subjects.