dizocilpine-maleate and decamethrin

To better understand the neurotoxicity caused by the pyrethroid pesticide, we examined the effects of the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists MK-801, a non-competitive cation channel blocker, and 2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (APV), a competitive Na(+) channel blocker, on extracellular dopamine levels in male Sprague-Dawley rats receiving the type II pyrethroid deltamethrin using an in vivo microdialysis system. Deltamethrin (60 mg/kg, i.p.) evidently increased striatal dopamine levels with a peak time of 120 min, and the local infusion (i.c.) of either MK-801(650 muM) or APV (500 muM) completely blocked these actions. The fluctuation in the dopamine metabolite 3-MT also resembled that in dopamine. Our results suggest that dopamine-releasing neurons would be modulated via the NMDA receptor by the excitatory glutamatergic neurons after deltamethrin treatment.

Topics: Animals; Consciousness; Corpus Striatum; Dizocilpine Maleate; Dopamine; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; Insecticides; Male; Nitriles; Pyrethrins; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate; Valine

In this study we investigated the effects of deltamethrin on the expression of c-Fos and c-Jun in the cerebral cortex of rats. Immunohistochemical analysis demonstrated that the immunoreactivity for c-Fos was markedly increased in the cerebral cortex 5 h after deltamethrin treatment, and maintained at an increased level at 24 h, even though little immunoreactivity for c-Fos was seen in the same brain region of control rats. The immunostaining for c-Jun was also dramatically elevated in the same brain region, showing the same time course of c-Fos expression after deltamethrin treatment. Further, both MK-801, an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, and NBQX, an alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA)/kainate (KA) receptor antagonist, attenuated deltamethrin-elicited prolonged expression of c-Fos and c-Jun. Since the persistent expression of c-Fos and c-Jun is unusual, and has been reported before in conditions involving neurodegeneration, our results are consistent with a model that deltamethrin induces neurodegeneration through a glutamate-dependent pathway.

Topics: Animals; Cerebral Cortex; Dizocilpine Maleate; Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists; Immunohistochemistry; Insecticides; Male; Nitriles; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos; Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-jun; Pyrethrins; Quinoxalines; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley