A intensificação do comportamento tipo ansiedade induzido por cafeína em Daniorerio(zebrafish) é prevenida pelo tratamento com α-Tocoferol e L-NAME

Abstract

The growing consumption of beverages with high caffeine content can result in the appearance of symptoms from anxiety disorder induced by this drug. Currently, it has been used as a pharmacological caffeine inductor anxiety-like behavior and this induction may help facilitate better understanding of the relationship between behavioral changes and the mechanisms involved in this effect. Therefore, this study proposed that the nitrergic pathway could be a key mechanism to explain the behavioral effects produced by caffeine and that these effects could be reversed by an antioxidant, hence, the present work we had to evaluate the possible effect of L –NAME and - tocopherol expanded in anxiety-like behavior by caffeine in light/dark preference (LDP) test and novel tank dividing (NTD) test in Daniorerio. Zebrafish fish species (N=178) used were divided into the following experimental groups: SAL - 0.9% saline; CAF - Caffeine 100 mg/kg; DMSO - dimethylsulfoxide 0.1% ; L-NAME - (N -nitro -L - arginine methyl ester hydrochloride) 10 mg/kg; TF - -tocopherol 1 mg/kg (received only one injection by i.p.); SAL + SAL; DMSO + SAL; SAL + CAF , L-NAME + SALT , L-NAME + CAF ; TF + CAF, received two followed injections, one injection of each substance in the form of co-treatment, by i.p. The animals were submitted to the light/dark preference test and novel tank dividing test. All tests were filmed and the videos were evaluated using X-PLO-RAT. Data were expressed as mean ± SEM. The normality test was applied using the Shapiro-Wilk test and the ANOVA parametric test one-way with Tukey post-hoc, with the significance level set at p<0.05. The - tocopherol at a dose of 1 mg/kg, reversed all anxiety-like behavior parameters expanded by caffeine in LDP and NTD tests and this effect was similar to that observed when given one inhibitor of the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS), L- NAME. Therefore, this study first demonstrated that the behavioral effect magnified by caffeine in scotaxis test and DVN test can be modulated by the nitrergic pathway and that the -tocopherol reverses completely this anxiety-like behavioral effect induced by caffeine.