Nutrition and brain function: a multidisciplinary virtual symposium

SS Almeida, LH Duntas, L Dye, ML Nunes… - Nutritional …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
A few months ago, the Brazilian Society for Neuroscience and Behavior (SBNeC) promoted
a" virtual symposium"(by Internet, under the coordination of RCA Guedes) on" Nutrition and …

Prooxidant versus antioxidant brain action of ascorbic acid in well-nourished and malnourished rats as a function of dose: a cortical spreading depression and …

RF Mendes-da-Silva, AAC Lopes-de-Morais… - …, 2014 - Elsevier
Although ascorbic acid (AA) is an antioxidant, under certain conditions it can facilitate
oxidation, which may underlie the opposite actions of AA on brain excitability in distinct …

Manipulation of rat litter size during suckling influences cortical spreading depression after weaning and at adulthood

AP Rocha-de-Melo, J De Brito Cavalcanti… - Nutritional …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Nutritional conditions early in life constitute one environmental factor that can influence brain
electrophysiological features. Cortical spreading depression (SD) is a brain …

Fluoxetine inhibits cortical spreading depression in weaned and adult rats suckled under favorable and unfavorable lactation conditions

ÂA dos Santos, PCF Pinheiro, DSC de Lima… - Experimental …, 2006 - Elsevier
Wistar rats (n= 58) were injected subcutaneously during the lactation period with fluoxetine
(5, 10, 20 or 40 mg/kg/day) and cortical spreading depression (SD) was recorded …

Citalopram has an antagonistic action on cortical spreading depression in well-nourished and early-malnourished adult rats

RCA Guedes, A Amâncio-dos-Santos… - Nutritional …, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Adult, well-nourished (W) and early-malnourished (M) male Wistar rats were injected
intraperitoneally for 7 days with 20 mg/kg CIT and cortical spreading depression (CSD) was …

Characterization of cortical spreading depression in adult well-nourished and malnourished rats submitted to the association of pilocarpine-induced epilepsy plus …

RRG Costa-Cruz, Â Amâncio-dos-Santos… - Neuroscience …, 2006 - Elsevier
Spreading depression was characterized in adult rats rendered epileptic by pilocarpine
(350mg/kg, ip) and thereafter made hyperglycemic with (ip) 60mg/kg streptozotocin. Groups …

Malnutrition and REM-sleep deprivation modulate in rats the impairment of spreading depression by a single sub-convulsing dose of pilocarpine

CAC De Vasconcelos, JAF De Oliveira… - Nutritional …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
This study aimed to investigate the effect of a single injection of pilocarpine upon the
phenomenon of cortical spreading depression (SD), in adult rats submitted to early …

Differential effects of methylmercury intoxication in the rat's barrel field as evidenced by NADPH diaphorase histochemistry

MAM Freire, RB Oliveira, CW Picanço-Diniz… - Neurotoxicology, 2007 - Elsevier
In the present study, we investigated the effects of mercury intoxication on the structure of the
posteromedial barrel subfield (PMBSF) in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) of adult …

Neuropil reactivity, distribution and morphology of NADPH diaphorase type I neurons in the barrel cortex of the adult mouse

MAM Freire, JG Franca, CW Picanço-Diniz… - Journal of Chemical …, 2005 - Elsevier
The mouse, like a few other rodent and marsupial species, displays a striking modular
architecture in its primary somatosensory cortex (SI). These modules, known as barrels, are …

Long-lasting effects of early environmental stimulation on cortical spreading depression in normal and early malnourished adult rats

J Santos-Monteiro, NR Teodósio… - Nutritional …, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated the effects of early environmental stimulation on spreading depression in
the cerebral cortex of male Wistar adult (90 day old) well-nourished (23% protein diet) and …