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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/fz

Fiziologichnyi Zhurnal

is a scientific journal issued by the

Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Editor-in-chief: V.F. Sagach

The journal was founded in 1955 as
1955 – 1977 "Fiziolohichnyi zhurnal" (ISSN 0015 – 3311)
1978 – 1993 "Fiziologicheskii zhurnal" (ISSN 0201 – 8489)
1994 – 2016 "Fiziolohichnyi zhurnal" (ISSN 0201 – 8489)
2017 – "Fiziolohichnyi zhurnal" (ISSN 2522-9028)

Fiziol. Zh. 2016; 62(6): 50-59

NO-ERGIC CONTROL OF BLOOD CIRCULATION IN THE MEDULLA OBLONGATA OF RATS WITH EXPERIMENTAL HEMIPARKINSONIZM UNDER EXPOSURE TO CONTINUOUS LIGHT

L.M. Shapoval, B.S. Kop’yak, O.V. Dmytrenko, V.O. Mayskiy, O.P. Mankivska, V.F. Sagach

    OO.Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15407/fz62.06.050


Abstract

The study was conducted on rats with unilateral damage to dopaminergic (DA) neurons in substantia nigra of the midbrain (experimental hemiparkinsonism). Degeneration of dopaminergic (DA) neurons was accompanied by hyperactivity of those neurons that remained intact and responded to apomorphine (Apo) test by rotational movements. Depending on the number of rotations, three groups of animals were defined. In the medulla oblongata of rats with unilateral damage to dopaminergic (DA) neurons, a significant increase in the activity of inducible NO-synthase (iNOS) was observed, while the activity of constitutive NO-synthase (cNOS) tended to decrease compared with that in control rats. An activation of neuronal NO-synthase (nNOS) in those rats by injections of L-arginine in the medullary nuclei was accompanied by weakening of the hemodynamic effects compared to those in control rats. An exposure of animals to continuous light for three weeks was accompanied by increasing the number of damaged DA-ergic neurons in substantia nigra. At that, a significant decrease in cNOS activity in the medulla oblongata was observed, leading to the inhibition of de novo synthesis of nitric oxide (NO). The reduction of NO synthesis in the medulla oblongata neurons of rats with experimental hemiparkinsonism following their exposure to continuous light was also evidenced by the reduction of the amount of nitrite (NO2-) anion.

Keywords: nitric oxide; medulla oblongata; substantia nigra; exposure to light.

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