Abstract

NASSER, Guerrero; RODRIGO TORRES, Saez  and  CARLOS CONDE, Cotes. Preliminary study of cerebral proteomics expression of hippocampal region from rats exposed to different stress levels induced by forced swimming. Rev. Univ. Ind. Santander. Salud [online]. 2012, vol.44, n.1, pp.17-27. ISSN 0121-0807.

Introduction: in general stressful stimuli can induce adaptive maladaptive responses, depending among other things, of their intensity and duration. However, no studies were found in the literature that link quantitatively and qualitatively the intensity of stress to which an animal is exposed, and hippocampal protein expression. Objective: to evaluate the differential hippocampal protein expression in Wistar-UIS rats, exposed to dissimilar levels of stress induced by forced swimming. Materials and methods: we used 30 rats randomly assigned to 3 groups according to duration of exposure to forced swimming as stressor stimulus (0, 5 and 15 minutes). 24 hours after the dorsal hippocampi were removed and two-dimensional electrophoresis was performed to the extracted proteins. Then, image processing of the gels obtained was performed using the PDQuest 2D software. Those proteins in which intensities were detected associated with the stimulus-exposure times were presumptively identified using Export Protein Analysis System (EXPASY) a bioinformatics database. Results: according to the bioinformatic and proteomic analyses we identified 60 proteins, 38 of which were common to both left and right hippocampi, 13 were found only in the right hippocampi and 9 in the left. Conclusion: dose-dependent decreasing rate differences in protein expression between the left and right hippocampus were found after animals were subjected to different levels of stress induced by forced swimming test. Salud UIS 2012; 44 (1): 17-27

Keywords : Stress; hippocampus; proteomic; forced swimming.