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Behav Brain Res ; 383: 112487, 2020 04 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31987932

RESUMO

Despite recent advances, current antidepressants have considerable limitations: late onset of action and the high profile of refractoriness. Biomedical research with natural products has gained growing interest in the last years, and had provide useful candidates for new antidepressants. Riparins are a group of natural alkamides obtained from Aniba riparia, which had marked neuroactive effects, mainly as antidepressant and antinociceptive agents. We made modifications of the basic structure of riparins, originating a synthetic alkamide, also known as riparin IV (RipIV). RipIV demonstrated a superior analgesic effect than its congeners and a marked antidepressant-like effect. However, the basic mechanism for the central effects of RipIV remains unknown. Here, we aimed to investigate the participation of monoaminergic neurotransmission targets in the antidepressant-like effects of RipIV. To do this, we applied a combined approach of experimental (classical pharmacology and neurochemistry) and computer-aided techniques. Our results demonstrated that RipIV presented antidepressant- and anxiolytic-like effects without modifying locomotion and motor coordination of mice. Also, RipIV increased brain monoamines and their metabolite levels. At the higher dose (100 mg/kg), RipIV increased serotonin concentrations in all studied brain areas, while at the lower one (50 mg/kg), it increased mainly dopamine and noradrenaline levels. When tested with selective receptor antagonists, RipIV antidepressant effect showed dependence of the activation of multiple targets, including D1 and D2 dopamine receptors, 5-HT2A/2, 5-HT3 receptors and α2 adrenergic receptors. Molecular docking demonstrated favorable binding conformation and affinity of RipIV to monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B), serotonin transporter (SERT), α1 receptor, D2 receptor, dopamine transporter (DAT) and at some extent GABA-A receptor. RipIV also presented a computationally predicted favorable pharmacokinetic profile. Therefore, this study demonstrated the involvement of monoaminergic targets in the mechanism of RipIV antidepressant-like action, and provide evidence of it as a promising new antidepressant.


Assuntos
Ansiolíticos/farmacologia , Antidepressivos/farmacologia , Monoaminoxidase/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores Adrenérgicos alfa 2/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores Dopaminérgicos/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores de Serotonina/efeitos dos fármacos , Tiramina/análogos & derivados , Animais , Encéfalo/efeitos dos fármacos , Encéfalo/metabolismo , Bupropiona/farmacologia , Dopamina/metabolismo , Proteínas da Membrana Plasmática de Transporte de Dopamina/efeitos dos fármacos , Proteínas da Membrana Plasmática de Transporte de Dopamina/metabolismo , Fluoxetina/farmacologia , Imipramina/farmacologia , Camundongos , Simulação de Acoplamento Molecular , Monoaminoxidase/metabolismo , Norepinefrina/metabolismo , Receptor 5-HT2A de Serotonina/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptor 5-HT2A de Serotonina/metabolismo , Receptores Adrenérgicos alfa 2/metabolismo , Receptores Dopaminérgicos/metabolismo , Receptores de Dopamina D1 , Receptores de Dopamina D2 , Receptores de GABA-A/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores de GABA-A/metabolismo , Receptores de Serotonina/metabolismo , Receptores 5-HT2 de Serotonina/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores 5-HT2 de Serotonina/metabolismo , Receptores 5-HT3 de Serotonina/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores 5-HT3 de Serotonina/metabolismo , Serotonina/metabolismo , Proteínas da Membrana Plasmática de Transporte de Serotonina/efeitos dos fármacos , Proteínas da Membrana Plasmática de Transporte de Serotonina/metabolismo , Tiramina/farmacologia
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Vet Microbiol ; 143(2-4): 429-33, 2010 Jul 14.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20045270

RESUMO

The present study had the objective of evaluating the pathogenic potential of the genetically related strains of Streptococcus agalactiae no. 80427 (human origin) and no. 87159 (bovine origin), and comparing the results with two other strains isolated from bovine mastitis (no. 87244) and invasive human infection (no. 90356), with no genetic or epidemiologic relationship between them or with the first 2 isolates. Virulence genes hylB (hyaluronidase) and lmb (laminin-binding protein) were detected in the 4 strains, and genes bac (beta protein) and bca (alpha protein) were only detected in human strains. The protein profile obtained using SDS-PAGE did not indicate any differences between the 4 strains. No significant difference was detected between human and bovine strains in the assays of adherence to and invasion of 16HBe cells, as well as in the resistance assay for intracellular bacterial survival in macrophages. However, the strain 87159 exhibited a greater survival in the killing test with whole human blood and was more virulent in newborn mice than the 80427 strain. The strain 87244 was not virulent in mice. These data suggest that isolates of human and bovine origins may express similar virulence attributes, leading to a possible, however limited, dissemination.


Assuntos
Doenças dos Bovinos/microbiologia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/veterinária , Streptococcus agalactiae/genética , Streptococcus agalactiae/patogenicidade , Animais , Bovinos , Humanos , Macrófagos/microbiologia , Macrófagos/fisiologia , Camundongos , Infecções Estreptocócicas/microbiologia , Virulência
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Vet Microbiol ; 140(1-2): 186-92, 2010 Jan 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19726142

RESUMO

Streptococcus agalactiae (Lancefield group B; GBS) is a pathogen that causes meningoencephalitis in fish, mastitis in cows, and neonatal sepsis in humans. The objective of this study was to characterize S. agalactiae isolated from fish (n=27), cows (n=9), and humans (n=10) using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and to investigate the virulence of the identified strains in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). The PFGE types were determined by dendogram analyses and the in vivo virulence was evaluated by experimental infection (using i.p. and immersion routes) of Nile tilapia. Among the fish strains, 5 different PFGE patterns were observed and 21 strains showed the same genetic pattern. In some farms two or three profiles occurred simultaneously. The bovine and human strains exhibited high genetic diversity and few relationships were established among S. agalactiae strains from the three host origins analyzed. Eight S. agalactiae strains from fish caused high mortality of Nile tilapia. Three bovine strains infected Nile tilapia (by i.p. route) and two of those strains caused clinical signs of meningoencephalitis. All human strains (n=5) infected Nile tilapia (by i.p. route) and meningoencephalitis was induced by one strain (by both i.p. and immersion routes). In conclusion, the analyzed strains from the three natural hosts did not show genetic relatedness, yet some of the bovine and human strains were able to infect fish and cause meningoencephalitis. We suggest that genetic linkage is not a prerequisite for S. agalactiae to cross the host-specific barrier.


Assuntos
Ciclídeos , Doenças dos Peixes/microbiologia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/microbiologia , Streptococcus agalactiae/genética , Streptococcus agalactiae/patogenicidade , Virulência/fisiologia , Animais , Técnicas de Tipagem Bacteriana , Bovinos , Eletroforese em Gel de Campo Pulsado , Feminino , Doenças dos Peixes/mortalidade , Doenças dos Peixes/patologia , Humanos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Infecções Estreptocócicas/mortalidade , Infecções Estreptocócicas/patologia , Streptococcus agalactiae/isolamento & purificação
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Clin Microbiol Infect ; 12(9): 887-93, 2006 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16882294

RESUMO

Twenty isolates of group B streptococcus (GBS) were recovered from the milk of cows with bovine mastitis on three farms located in the south and south-east of Brazil between 1987 and 1988. These isolates were characterised by molecular methods and compared with a collection of 103 human GBS isolates from colonised and infected patients in the same region between 1980 and 2003. Some of the bovine isolates shared identical or similar pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns with a PFGE clone of human GBS type V. In addition, these bovine and human isolates also possessed the same ribotype. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) of representative isolates confirmed the genetic relationship between the human and bovine GBS isolates with identical PFGE patterns, which clustered in the same ST-26 clonal complex. These data support the hypothesis that some bovine GBS strains are related closely to human isolates and may infect humans, or vice versa. Further comparative genomic analyses of GBS isolates from bovine and human origins are required to investigate this hypothesis further.


Assuntos
Mastite Bovina/microbiologia , Infecções Estreptocócicas/microbiologia , Streptococcus agalactiae/classificação , Streptococcus agalactiae/genética , Animais , Técnicas de Tipagem Bacteriana , Brasil , Bovinos , Eletroforese em Gel de Campo Pulsado , Feminino , Humanos , Ribotipagem , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Sorotipagem , Infecções Estreptocócicas/veterinária
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J Chemother ; 17(3): 258-63, 2005 Jun.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-16038518

RESUMO

The present study addresses epidemiological aspects of Brazilian human group B streptococci (GBS). GBS (103 isolates) were serotyped with specific rabbit anticapsular antibodies by double diffusion in agarose gels. They represented 3 serotypes: 26 II, 41 III, and 36 V. Thereafter, the strains were characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of DNA treated with SmaI. DNA restriction band sizes were compared and displayed 54 PFGE profiles that were arranged into 18 patterns. Of the predominant patterns detected for the 41 type III isolates 4 were observed in 15 strains from individuals with infections whereas only 3 were identified in 22 streptococci from healthy carriers. Such differences did not separate types II and V streptococci from carriers and patients. The PFGE method is a sensitive, precise, and powerful tool for discriminating streptococcal strains for epidemiological purposes.


Assuntos
Eletroforese em Gel de Campo Pulsado , Infecções Estreptocócicas/epidemiologia , Streptococcus agalactiae/classificação , Streptococcus agalactiae/patogenicidade , Animais , Anticorpos Antibacterianos , Brasil , Portador Sadio , Estudos Epidemiológicos , Humanos , Coelhos , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Sorotipagem
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