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Treadmill exercise ameliorates symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder through reducing Purkinje cell loss and astrocytic reaction in spontaneous hypertensive rats

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JOURNAL OF EXERCISE REHABILITATION
Volume 10, Issue 1, Pages 22-30

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KOREAN SOC EXERCISE REHABILITATION
DOI: 10.12965/jer.140092

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder; treadmill exercise; Vertical pole test; Cerebellum; Purkinje cell

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  1. National Research Foundation of Korea Grant - Korean Government [NRF-2011-327-G00121]

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder of cognition. We investigated the effects of treadmill exercise on Purkinje cell and astrocytic reaction in the cerebellum of the ADHD rat Adult male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyo-to rats (WKYR) weighing 210 +/- 10 g were used. The animals were randomly divided into four groups (n=15): control group, ADHD group, ADHD and methylphenidate (MPH)-treated group, AND and treadmill exercise group. The rats in the MPH-treated group as a positive control received 1 mg/kg MPH orally once a day for 28 consecutive days. The rats in the treadmill exercise group were made to run on a treadmill for 30 min once a day for 28 days. Motor coordination and balance were determined by vertical pole test lmmunohistochemistry for the expression of calbindinD-28 and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in the cerebellar vermis and Western blot for GFAP, Bax, and Bcl-2 were conducted. In the present results, ADHD significantly decreased balance and the number of calbindin-positive cells, while GFAP expression and Bax/Bcl-2 ratio in the cerebellum were significantly increased in the ADHD group compared to the control group (P<0.05, respectively). In contrast, treadmill exercise and MPH alleviated the ADHD-induced the decrease of balance and the number of calbindine-positive cells, and the increase of GFAP expression and Bax/Bcl-2 ratio in the cerebellum (P < 0.05, respectively). Therefore, the present results suggested that treadmill exercise might exert ameliorating effect on ADHD through reduction of Purkinje cell loss and astrocytic reaction in the cerebellum.

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