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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE
Volume 1637, Issue 3, Pages 187-192Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4439(03)00019-X
Keywords
homocysteine; homocystinuria; brain energy metabolism; experimental model
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Homocystinuria is an inherited metabolic disease biochemically characterized by tissue accumulation of homocysteine (Hcy). Mental retardation, ischemia and other neurological features, whose mechanisms are still obscure are common symptoms in homocystinuric patients. In this work, we investigated the effect of Hey administration in Wistar rats on some parameters of energy metabolism in the hippocampus; a cerebral structure directly involved with cognition. The parameters utilized were (CO2)-C-14 production, glucose uptake, lactate release and the activities of succinate dehydrogenase and cytochrome c oxidase (COX). Chronic hyperhomocysteinemia was induced by subcutaneous administration of Hcy twice a day from the 6th to the 28th day of life in doses previously determined in our laboratory. Control rats received saline in the same volumes. Rats were killed 12 h after the last injection. Results showed that Hcy administration significantly diminished (CO2)-C-14 production and glucose uptake, as well as succinate dehydrogenase and COX activities. It is suggested that impairment of brain energy metabolism may be related to the neurological symptoms present in homocystinuric patients. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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