Affiliation:
1. Department of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Oczapowskiego Str. 13, 10-718 Olsztyn, Poland
Abstract
Background: A particularly pressing problem is determining consumer-safe doses of potentially health- and life-threatening substances, such as acrylamide. The aim of the study was to determine how acrylamide affects the pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP)-immunoreactive intramural neurons in the small intestine of sexually immature gilts. Methods: The study was conducted on 15 sexually immature Danish gilts receiving for 28 days empty gelatin capsules or acrylamide in low (0.5 µg/kg of body weight (b.w.)/day) and high (5 µg/kg b.w./day) doses. After euthanasia, intestinal sections were stained using the double immunofluorescence staining procedure. Results: Studies have shown that oral administration of acrylamide in both doses induced a response of intramural neurons expressed as an increase in the population of PACAP-immunoreactive neurons in the small intestine. In the duodenum, only in the myenteric plexus (MP) was an increase in the number of PACAP-immunoreactive (IR) neurons observed in both experimental groups, while in the outer submucous plexus (OSP) and inner submucous plexus (ISP), an increase was noted only in the high-dose group. In the jejunum, both doses of acrylamide led to an increase in the population of PACAP-IR neurons in each enteric plexus (MP, OSP, ISP), while in the ileum, only supplementation with the higher dose of acrylamide increased the number of PACAP-IR enteric neurons in the MP, OSP, and ISP. Conclusions: The obtained results suggest the participation of PACAP in acrylamide-induced plasticity of enteric neurons, which may be an important line of defence from the harmful action of acrylamide on the small intestines.
Funder
Ministry of Science and Higher Education
Minister of Education and Science
Subject
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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