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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 560, Issue 2-3, Pages 163-175Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2006.12.032
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parecoxib; MPTP; tyrosine hydroxylase; COX-2; Parkinson's disease
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The present study investigated the effects of the selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitor parecoxib (Bextra (TM)) in the prevention of motor and cognitive impairments observed in rats after an intranigral infusion of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP), a model of the early phase of Parkinson's disease. The treatment with parecoxib (10 mg/kg) administered prior to the surgery and daily (2 mg/kg) for the subsequent 21 days, prevented the MPTP-treated rats from presenting decreased locomotor and exploratory behavior, increased immobility, and impairment while performing the cued version of the Morris water maze. Furthermore, parecoxib treatment also significantly prevented the reduction of tyrosine hydroxylase protein expression in the substantia nigra (7, 14 and 21 days after surgery), and in the striatum (14 and 21 days after surgery) as immunodetected by western blotting. These results strongly suggest that parecoxib exerts a neuroprotective effect on motor, tyrosine hydroxylase expression, and cognitive functions as it prevents their impairments within the confines of this animal model of the early phase of Parkinson's disease. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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