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MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH
Volume 123, Issue -, Pages 19-24Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.mvr.2018.12.001
Keywords
Sepsis; Choroid plexus; Oxidative stress; Neuroinflammation
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- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico - CNPq)
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Background: The choroid plexus (CP), main component of blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (BCSFB), protects the brain from peripheral inflammation similar to the blood-brain barrier. Thus, CP is considered a critical target site of oxidative damage, which in sepsis oxidative stress is likely to be a major step in the development of brain damage. Functional alterations in CP may be associated with sepsis-induced brain injury. However, there is no description on the mechanisms associated with BCSFB disruption during sepsis development. Materials and methods: To test this hypothesis, we examined time-dependent oxidative stress markers in CP and permeability of BCSFB in rats submitted to polymicrobial sepsis by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) or sham surgery (control). We assessed albumin cerebrospinal fluid/plasma concentration quotient (Qalb), an index of BCSFB dysfunction and in CP samples, the oxidative damage in lipids, proteins, antioxidant enzymes and nitrite/nitrate (N/N) concentration in 12, 24 and 48 h after CLP. Results: The increase of BCSFB permeability is time-related to the increase of N/N concentration, oxidative damage to lipid and proteins, and decrease of antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase activity at 12 h in the CP; and decrease of catalase activity in 12 and 24 h. Conclusions: In experimental sepsis the BCSFB dysfunction occurs and oxidative stress seems to be a major step in this dysfunction.
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