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1- EFFECT OF DELTAMETHRIN ON TRANSMISSION OF GAMMA AMINOBUTYRIC ACID (GABA) AND THYROID HORMONES IN ADULT MALE ALBINO RATS* ABDEL-KADER, S.M.(1) and ABDEL-RAHMAN, M.(2) (1)
Radioisotopes Department, Nuclear Research Center, Atomic Energy
Authority, Egypt and (2) Zoology Department, Faculty of Science, Key words: Deltamethrin, GABA, Cl-, TSH , T3 , T4 , Rat . 1- تأثير الدلتاميثرين على نقل الجاما أمينو حامض البيوتيريك (الجابا) وهرمونات الغدة الدرقية فى ذكور الجرذان البيضاء البالغة سهام محمود عبد القادر ومنى عبد الرحمن خلاصـــة ABSTRACT
The oral administration of 1/5 LD50 , of deltamethrin for 15 days produced an increase in GABA content and a decrease in Cl- ions concentration in all tested brain areas (cerebellum, pons + medulla oblongata, striatum, cerebral cortex, hypothalamus, midbrain and hippocampus) of adult male albino rats, almost at most time intervals. Deltamethrin also resulted in a significant decrease in serum TSH and increase in T3 and T4 levels in the treated rats. From the present results, it was found that deltamethrin decreased the passage of Cl- ions in the cells which might be, in part, due to a decrease of the transmission of GABA and an increase of the circulating thyroid hormones (triiodothyronine and thyroxine). Accordingly, deltamethrin may act as GABA antagonist and may act on the hypothalamus pituitary thyroid axis. In conclusion, the elevation of thyroid hormones as well as the decrease in both Cl- ions and GABA transmission which could be all together responsible for the impairment of motor activity, hyper excitability and seizure that occurred in rats treated with the pyrethroid insecticide, deltamethrin. |
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