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P Derevenco

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Central and peripheral effects of 6-hydroxydopamine on exercise performance in rats.

6-Hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) injected into the lateral cerebral ventricles of rats impaired their exercise performance until exhaustion (treadmill run and swimming). The injected rats displayed significantly less training-induced improvement of swimming performance than did the control animals. Reduced performance also was seen in adult rats treated intraperitoneally with 6-OHDA in the neonatal or adult periods. The functional impairment can be explained by the neurotoxic action of 6-OHDA on monoamine brain structures (substantia nigra and locus ceruleus) and/or on peripheral sympathetic innervation, the latter assessed by histofluorescence of the iris muscle. The possible contribution of lacticacidemia to the reduced tolerance to stress of 6-OHDA-treated rats by the intracerebroventricular route also is considered.

Adaptation, Physiological↗

[Contribution to the study of stress (author's transl)].

The research activity of the physiological laboratories (Medical and Hygienic Institute, Cluj-Napoca, Roumania) in the area of stress studies is described from three aspects: a) Methods of stress provocation and assessment; b) The effects of hormones, especially of anterior pituitary, on the adaptation to physical load; c) Nervous and endocrine factors of stress (physical exertion, fatigue, high pressure, anoxia).

17-Hydroxycorticosteroids↗

Action of some pituitary hormones on the work capacity in rats.

FSH (50 mu/rat X 12 days), ICSH (in the same dosis) and gonadotropinum sericum (20 U/rat X 13 days) have a prevailing inhibitory influence on the motor activity in untrained or/and trained rats. TSH raises the motor performance but significantly only in great doses (1.5 IU/100g body weight X 13 days). GH (0.1 and 0.5 mg/rat X 16 days) reduces the favourable effects of moderate training on the run performance. A part of these results could be explained by the studied biochemical changes.

Animals↗