Housing in pyramid counteracts neuroendocrine and oxidative stress caused by chronic restraint in rats

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-42

  Bhat, M Surekha ^a   Rao, Guruprasad ^a   Murthy, K Dilip ^a   Bhat, P Gopalakrishna ^b  

^a MELAKA MANIPAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Kasturba Medical College   (India)

Author keywords

Chronic restraint; Glutathione; Glutathione peroxidase; Pyramid model; Superoxide dismutase; TBARS

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; HYDROCORTISONE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE LEVEL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 33947150147     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nel049     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Schul B, Pettit E. The historical enigma. In: The Secret Power of Pyramids, New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1975, 24-41.
2. Schul B, Pettit E. The pyramid: ancient and new miracle worker. In: The Secret Power of Pyramids, New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1975, 11-23.
3. Orzechowski A, Ostaszewski P, Brodnicka A, Wilczak J, Jank M, Balasinska B, et al. Excess of glucocorticoids impairs whole-body antioxidant status in young rats-relation to the effect of dexamethasone in soleus muscle and spleen. Horm Metab Res 2000;32:174-80.
4. Aleksandrovskii IA, Poiurovskii MV, Neznamov GG, Seredeniia SB, Krasova EA. Lipid peroxidation in emotional stress and neurotic disorders. Zh Nevropatol Psikhiatr Im S S Korsakova 1988;88:95-101 (in Russian).
5. Cross CE, Halliwell B, Borish ET, Pryor WA, Ames BN, Saul RL, et al. Oxygen radicals and human disease. Ann Intern Med 1987;107:526-45.
6. Frei B. Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant vitamins: mechanism of action. Am J Med 1994;97:5s-13s.
7. Peterhans E. Oxidants and antioxidants in viral diseases: disease mechanisms and metabolic regulation. J Nutr 1997;127:962s-5s.
8. Beck MM, Levander OA. Dietary oxidative stress and the potentiation of viral infection. Annu Rev Nutr 1998;18:93-116.
9. Irshad M, Chaudhuri PS. Oxidant-antioxidant system: role and significance in human body. Indian J Exp Biol 2002;40:1233-9.
10. Bharathi H. Effect of energy within a pyramid model on learning, memory and stress-a behavioral and morphological study in mice. PhD thesis, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, 2002.
11. Bhat S, Rao G, Murthy KD, Bhat PG. Effect of housing rats within a pyramid on stress parameters. Indian J Exp Biol 2003;41:1289-93.
12. Schul B, Pettit E. Home experiments. In: The Secret Power of Pyramids, New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1975, 192-201.
13. Toth M, Nielsen G. Model pyramid construction. In: Pyramid Power, Vermont, USA: Inner Traditions India, 1985, 151-6.
14. Sunanda. Stress induced changes in hippocampus-a morphological, neurochemical, behavioral and in vitro study. Thesis submitted to NIMHANS (Deemed University) Bangalore, India 1997, 44-79.
15. Domenicali M, Caraceni P, Vendemiale G, Grattagliano I, Nardo B, Dall'Agata M, et al. Food deprivation exacerbates mitochondrial oxidative stress in rat liver exposed to ischemia reperfusion injury. J Nutr 2001;131:105-10.
16. Harris RB, Zhou J, Mitchell T, Hebert S, Ryan DH. Rats fed only during the light period are resistant to stress induced weight loss. Physiol Behav 2002;76:543-50.
17. Gowenlock AH, McMurray JR, McLauchlan DM. Measurement of steroids in body fluids-fluorimetric assays. In: Varley's Practical Clinical Biochemistry, 6th edn, Heinemann, London, 1988, 814-6.
18. Jain SK, Mc Vie R, Duett J, Herbest JJ. Erythrocyte membrane lipid peroxidation and glycosylated hemoglobin in diabetes. Diabetes 1989;38:1539-43.
19. Tentori L, Salvati AM. Hemoglobinometry in human blood. Methods Enzymol 1981;76:707-15.
20. Beutler E, Duron O, Kelly BM. Improved method for the determination of blood glutathione. J Lab Clin Med 1963;61:882-8.
21. Paglia DE, Valentine WN. Studies on the quantitative and qualitative characterization of erythrocyte glutathione peroxidase. J Lab Clin Med 1967;70:158-69.
22. Beauchamp C, Fridovich I. Superoxide dismutase: improved assays and an assay applicable to acrylamide gels. Anal Biochem 1971;44:276-87.
23. Marti O, Harbuz MS, Andres R, Lightman SL, Armario A. Activation of the hypothalamic pituitary axis in adrenalectomised rats: potentiation by chronic stress. Brain Res 1999;821:1-7.
24. Daniels WM, Richter L, Stein DJ. The effects of repeated intra-amygdala CRF injections on rat behaviour and HPA axis after stress. Metab Brain Dis 2004;19:15-23.
25. Hashimoto K, Suemaru S, Takao T, Sugawara M, Makino S, Ota Z. Corticotropin releasing hormone and pituitary adrenocortical responses in chronically stressed rats. Regul Pept 1988;23:117-26.
26. Lightman SL, Harbuz MS. Expression of corticotrophin releasing factor mRNA in response to stress. Ciba Found Symp 1993;172:173-87.
27. Effects/experiments with pyramid/orgone energy. Available at: www.geocities.com/undergsci/pyramideffects.html. Assessed on 2005.
28. Stark NH. What can a pyramid do? In: The First Practical Pyramid Book, KS: Sheed Andrews and McMeel Inc., Kansas City, 1977, 29.
29. Schul B, Pettit E. The pyramid and altered states of consciousness. In: The Secret Power of Pyramids, New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1975, 61-177.
30. Toth M, Nielsen G. Transform yourself with pyramid energy. In: Pyramid Power, Vermont, USA, Inner Traditions India, 1985, 124-38.
31. Zaidi SM, Al-Qirim TM, Hoda N, Banu N. Modulation of restraint stress induced oxidative changes by antioxidant vitamins. J Nutr Biochem 2003;14:633-6.
32. Abidin I, Yargicoglu P, Agar A, Gumuslu S, Aydin S, Ozturk O, et al. The effect of chronic restraint stress on spatial learning and memory: relation to oxidant stress. Int J Neurosci 2004;114:683-99.
33. Bagchi D, Carryl OR, Tran MX, Bagchi M, Garg A, Milnes MM, et al. Acute and chronic stress induced oxidative gastrointestinal mucosal injury in rats and protection by bismuth subsalicylate. Mol Cell Biochem 1999;196:109-16.
34. Singh A, Garg V, Gupta S, Kulkarni SK. Role of antioxidants in chronic fatigue syndrome in mice. Indian J Exp Biol 2002;40:1240-4.
35. McIntosh LJ, Sapolsky RM. Glucocorticoids increase the accumulation of reactive oxygen species and enhance adriamycin induced toxicity in neuronal culture. Exp Neurol 1996;141:201-6.
36. Eid YZ, Ohtsuka A, Hayashi K. Tea polyphenols reduce glucocorticoid- induced growth inhibition and oxidative stress in broiler chickens. Br Poult Sci 2003;44:127-32.
37. Ohtsuka A, Kojima H, Ohtani T, Hayashi K. Vitamin E reduces glucocorticoid-induced oxidative stress in rat skeletal muscle. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol (Tokyo) 1998;44:779-86.
38. Itoh T, Saito T, Fujimura M, Watanabe S, Saito K. Restraint stress induced changes in endogenous zinc release from the rat hippocampus. Brain Res 1993;618:318-22.
39. Elissa SE, Elizabeth HB, Jue L, et al. Accelerated telomere shortening in response to life stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2004;101:17312-5.
40. 2. J Neurosci 2003;23:2744-50.
41. Siems WG, Sommerburg O, Grune T. Erythrocyte free radical and energy metabolism. Clin Nephrol 2000;53:(1 Suppl)59-17.
42. May JM, Quip JC, Whitesell RR, Cobb CE. Ascorbate recycling in human erythrocytes: role of GSH in reducing dehydroascorbate. Free Radic Biol Med 1996;20:543-51.
43. McIntosh LJ, Hong KE, Sapolsky RM. Glucocorticoids may alter antioxidant capacity in the brain: baseline studies. Brain Res 1998;791:209-14.
44. Kostic TS, Andric SA, Maric D, Kovacevic RZ. Inhibitory effects of stress-activated nitric oxide on antioxidant enzymes and testicular steroidogenesis. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2000;75:299-306.
45. Xu H, Luo C, Richardson JS, Li XM. Recovery of hippocampal cell proliferation and BDNF levels, both of which are reduced by repeated restraint stress, is accelerated by chronic venlafaxine. Pharmacogenomics J 2004;4:322-31.
46. Oishi K, Yokoi M, Maekawa S, Sodeyama C, Shiraisi T, Kondo R, et al. Oxidative stress and haematological changes in immobilized rats. Acta Physiol Scand 1999;165:65-9.
47. Singh A, Garg V, Gupta S, Kulkarni SK. Role of antioxidants in chronic fatigue syndrome in mice. Indian J Exp Biol 2002;40:1240-4.
48. Grillo CA, Piroli GG, Rosell DR, Hoskin EK, Mcewen BS, Reagan LP. Region specific increases in oxidative stress and superoxide dismutase in the hippocampus of diabetic rats subjected to stress. Neuroscience 2003;121:133-40.
49. Salo DC, Pacifici RE, Lin SW, Giulivi C, Davies KJA. Superoxide dismutase undergoes proteolysis and fragmentation following oxidative modification and inactivation. J Biol Chem 1990;265:11919-27.
50. Romeu M, Mulero M, Giralt M, Folch J, Nogues MR, Torres A, et al. Parameters related to oxygen free radicals in erythrocytes, plasma and epidermis of the hairless rat. Life Sci 2002;71:1739-49.
51. Godin DV, Garnett ME. Species related variations in tissue antioxidant status-I, differences in antioxidant enzyme profiles. Comp Biochem Physiol B 1992;103:737-42.
52. Islamov BI, Balabanova RM, Funtikov VA, Gotovskii YV, Melzerov EE. Effect of bioresonance therapy on antioxidant system in lymphocytes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Bull Exp Biol Med 2002;134:248-50.
53. Schul B, Pettit E. Healing powers. In: The Secret Power of Pyramids, New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1975, 113-30.
54. Cooper EL. Editorial on CAM, eCAM, bioprospecting: the 21st century pyramid. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med 2005;2:125-7.