PMID- 20056132 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100405 LR - 20131121 IS - 1872-7972 (Electronic) IS - 0304-3940 (Linking) VI - 471 IP - 1 DP - 2010 Feb 26 TI - DNA damage after intracerebroventricular injection of ouabain in rats. PG - 6-9 LID - 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.12.072 [doi] AB - There is an emerging body of data suggesting that bipolar disorder is associated with DNA damage. Intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) administration of ouabain in rats results in manic-like alterations. We evaluated DNA damage of peripheral blood, cerebrospinal fluid and hippocampus of rats after i.c.v. ouabain injection. Ouabain-induced hyperlocomotion was examined in an open field. Additionally, we used single cell gel electrophoresis (comet assay) to measure early transient damage in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), hippocampus and blood; and the micronucleus test to measure persistent damage in total blood samples of rats after ouabain administration. Our findings demonstrated that ouabain induced hyperlocomotion in rats, and this response remained up to 7 days following a single i.c.v. injection. In addition, we observed that the persistent increase in the rat spontaneous locomotion is associated with increased hippocampal and peripheral index of early DNA damage in rats. No significant alterations were observed in the micronucleus frequency in total blood samples of the rats after the ouabain i.c.v. injection. These results suggest that ouabain may induce peripheral and central early DNA damage, but this early damage may be repaired. CI - 2010 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved. FAU - Jornada, Luciano K AU - Jornada LK AD - Laboratory of Neurosciences and National Institute for Translational Medicine, University of Southern Santa Catarina, Criciuma, SC, Brazil. FAU - Valvassori, Samira S AU - Valvassori SS FAU - Arent, Camila O AU - Arent CO FAU - Leffa, Daniela AU - Leffa D FAU - Damiani, Adriani A AU - Damiani AA FAU - Hainzenreder, Giana AU - Hainzenreder G FAU - Ferreira, Camila L AU - Ferreira CL FAU - Moretti, Morgana AU - Moretti M FAU - Andrade, Vanessa M AU - Andrade VM FAU - Quevedo, Joao AU - Quevedo J LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100105 PL - Ireland TA - Neurosci Lett JT - Neuroscience letters JID - 7600130 RN - 5ACL011P69 (Ouabain) RN - 9007-49-2 (DNA) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Bipolar Disorder/chemically induced/*genetics/psychology MH - Comet Assay MH - DNA/blood/cerebrospinal fluid/metabolism MH - *DNA Damage MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Hippocampus/metabolism MH - Injections, Intraventricular MH - Male MH - Micronucleus Tests MH - Motor Activity MH - *Ouabain MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar EDAT- 2010/01/09 06:00 MHDA- 2010/04/07 06:00 CRDT- 2010/01/09 06:00 PHST- 2009/09/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2009/12/01 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2009/12/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/01/09 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/01/09 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/04/07 06:00 [medline] AID - S0304-3940(09)01676-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.12.072 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neurosci Lett. 2010 Feb 26;471(1):6-9. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.12.072. Epub 2010 Jan 5.