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Cytogenetic Effect of Heavy Metal Exposure in Alzheimer’s Disease Rat Model

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Last updated: 27 Dec 2024

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Biochemistry

Abstract

The widespread heavy metal, potassium dichromate (PDC), presents an actual threat because of its high toxicity to all body organs. This research was designed to study the possible cytotoxicity and genotoxicity exerted by PDC on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the prospect negative effect on AD induced in rats. The current research was performed on forty male rats, classified similarly into 4 sets: normal control, AD control was done by intraperitoneal injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) at a dose 250 µg/kg body weight for 7 days, AD intraperitoneally injected once by PDC 10 mg/kg body weight, and PDC-intoxicated rats (same as the third group). The forth group served to compare the effect of PDC alone. Twenty-four hours after the PDC injection, rats were sacrificed to collect their brain hippocampi (CA3 region) to study its histopathological structure, acetylcholinesterase (AChE) gene expression by RT-PCR, malondialdehyde (MDA) content and catalase (CAT) activity spectrophotometrically. Additionally, cells of the bone marrow were harvested from the rat femoral bone to undergo in-vivo micronucleus (MN) assay. The outcomes entailed that AD rats with PDC significantly altered the hippocampal histology, vanished neuronal survival count, increased AChE gene expression, MDA content and CAT activity in AD rats more than normal and PDC-only rats. Furthermore, PDC significantly elevated frequency of MN in AD rats' bone marrow cells. In conclusion, the study results evidenced that PDC exerted a tremendous harm to the AD case, evident by all previously mentioned outcomes.

DOI

10.21608/aijpms.2021.80009.1081

Keywords

Potassium Dichromate, Alzheimer’s disease, lipopolysaccharide, micronucleus, Cytotoxicity, genotoxicity

Authors

First Name

Marwa

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Ashraf

Affiliation

Biochemistry department, Faculty of Pharmacy , October 6 University

Email

marwaashraf@o6u.edu.eg

City

6th of October

Orcid

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First Name

Iman

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

Hassan

Affiliation

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Pharmacy (Girls), Azhar University

Email

imanhassan.pharmg@azhar.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-5752-2107

First Name

Ezzat

Last Name

Aboul Ela

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Department of Genetic and Cytology, Division of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, National Research Centre, Dokki, Gizza, Egypt

Email

aboul_ela@hotmail.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0001-7810-5599

Volume

1

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

29111

Issue Date

2021-11-01

Receive Date

2021-06-11

Publish Date

2021-11-01

Page Start

56

Page End

65

Print ISSN

2735-4598

Online ISSN

2735-4601

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https://aijpms.journals.ekb.eg/article_208564.html

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1,562

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Publication Title

Azhar International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Medical Sciences

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https://aijpms.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Cytogenetic Effect of Heavy Metal Exposure in Alzheimer’s Disease Rat Model

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Created At

23 Jan 2023