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Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs

Neonatal lambs, as other neonates, have physiologically a very low plasma melatonin concentration throughout 24 h. Previously, we found that melatonin given to neonates daily for 5 days decreased heart weight and changed plasma cortisol and gene expression in the adrenal and heart. Whether these cha...

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Autores principales: Beñaldo, Felipe A., Llanos, Aníbal J., Araya-Quijada, Claudio, Rojas, Auristela, Gonzalez-Candia, Alejandro, Herrera, Emilio A., Ebensperger, Germán, Cabello, Gertrudis, Valenzuela, Guillermo J., Serón-Ferré, María
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6640618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31354619
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00433
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author Beñaldo, Felipe A.
Llanos, Aníbal J.
Araya-Quijada, Claudio
Rojas, Auristela
Gonzalez-Candia, Alejandro
Herrera, Emilio A.
Ebensperger, Germán
Cabello, Gertrudis
Valenzuela, Guillermo J.
Serón-Ferré, María
author_facet Beñaldo, Felipe A.
Llanos, Aníbal J.
Araya-Quijada, Claudio
Rojas, Auristela
Gonzalez-Candia, Alejandro
Herrera, Emilio A.
Ebensperger, Germán
Cabello, Gertrudis
Valenzuela, Guillermo J.
Serón-Ferré, María
author_sort Beñaldo, Felipe A.
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description Neonatal lambs, as other neonates, have physiologically a very low plasma melatonin concentration throughout 24 h. Previously, we found that melatonin given to neonates daily for 5 days decreased heart weight and changed plasma cortisol and gene expression in the adrenal and heart. Whether these changes could compromise the responses to life challenges is unknown. Therefore, firstly, we studied acute effects of melatonin on the defense mechanisms to acute hypoxia in the neonate. Eleven lambs, 2 weeks old, were instrumented and subjected to an episode of acute isocapnic hypoxia, consisting of four 30 min periods: normoxia (room air), normoxia after an i.v. bolus of melatonin (0.27 mg kg(−1), n = 6) or vehicle (ethanol 1:10 NaCl 0.9%, n = 5), hypoxia (PaO(2): 30 ± 2 mmHg), and recovery (room air). Mean pulmonary and systemic blood pressures, heart rate, and cardiac output were measured, and systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance and stroke volume were calculated. Blood samples were taken every 30 min to measure plasma norepinephrine, cortisol, glucose, triglycerides, and redox markers (8-isoprostane and FRAP). Melatonin blunted the increase of pulmonary vascular resistance triggered by hypoxia, markedly exacerbated the heart rate response, decreased heart stroke volume, and lessened the magnitude of the increase of plasmatic norepinephrine and cortisol levels induced by hypoxia. No changes were observed in pulmonary blood pressure, systemic blood pressures and resistance, cardiac output, glucose, triglyceride plasma concentrations, or redox markers. Melatonin had no effect on cardiovascular, endocrine, or metabolic variables, under normoxia. Secondly, we examined whether acute melatonin administration under normoxia could have an effect in gene expression on the adrenal, lung, and heart. Lambs received a bolus of vehicle or melatonin and were euthanized 30 min later to collect tissues. We found that melatonin affected expression of the immediate early genes egr1 in adrenal, ctgf in lung, and nr3c1, the glucocorticoid receptor, in adrenal and heart. We speculate that these early gene responses may contribute to the observed alterations of the newborn defense mechanisms to hypoxia. This could be particularly important since the use of melatonin is proposed for several diseases in the neonatal period in humans.
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spelling pubmed-66406182019-07-26 Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs Beñaldo, Felipe A. Llanos, Aníbal J. Araya-Quijada, Claudio Rojas, Auristela Gonzalez-Candia, Alejandro Herrera, Emilio A. Ebensperger, Germán Cabello, Gertrudis Valenzuela, Guillermo J. Serón-Ferré, María Front Endocrinol (Lausanne) Endocrinology Neonatal lambs, as other neonates, have physiologically a very low plasma melatonin concentration throughout 24 h. Previously, we found that melatonin given to neonates daily for 5 days decreased heart weight and changed plasma cortisol and gene expression in the adrenal and heart. Whether these changes could compromise the responses to life challenges is unknown. Therefore, firstly, we studied acute effects of melatonin on the defense mechanisms to acute hypoxia in the neonate. Eleven lambs, 2 weeks old, were instrumented and subjected to an episode of acute isocapnic hypoxia, consisting of four 30 min periods: normoxia (room air), normoxia after an i.v. bolus of melatonin (0.27 mg kg(−1), n = 6) or vehicle (ethanol 1:10 NaCl 0.9%, n = 5), hypoxia (PaO(2): 30 ± 2 mmHg), and recovery (room air). Mean pulmonary and systemic blood pressures, heart rate, and cardiac output were measured, and systemic and pulmonary vascular resistance and stroke volume were calculated. Blood samples were taken every 30 min to measure plasma norepinephrine, cortisol, glucose, triglycerides, and redox markers (8-isoprostane and FRAP). Melatonin blunted the increase of pulmonary vascular resistance triggered by hypoxia, markedly exacerbated the heart rate response, decreased heart stroke volume, and lessened the magnitude of the increase of plasmatic norepinephrine and cortisol levels induced by hypoxia. No changes were observed in pulmonary blood pressure, systemic blood pressures and resistance, cardiac output, glucose, triglyceride plasma concentrations, or redox markers. Melatonin had no effect on cardiovascular, endocrine, or metabolic variables, under normoxia. Secondly, we examined whether acute melatonin administration under normoxia could have an effect in gene expression on the adrenal, lung, and heart. Lambs received a bolus of vehicle or melatonin and were euthanized 30 min later to collect tissues. We found that melatonin affected expression of the immediate early genes egr1 in adrenal, ctgf in lung, and nr3c1, the glucocorticoid receptor, in adrenal and heart. We speculate that these early gene responses may contribute to the observed alterations of the newborn defense mechanisms to hypoxia. This could be particularly important since the use of melatonin is proposed for several diseases in the neonatal period in humans. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC6640618/ /pubmed/31354619 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00433 Text en Copyright © 2019 Beñaldo, Llanos, Araya-Quijada, Rojas, Gonzalez-Candia, Herrera, Ebensperger, Cabello, Valenzuela and Serón-Ferré. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Endocrinology
Beñaldo, Felipe A.
Llanos, Aníbal J.
Araya-Quijada, Claudio
Rojas, Auristela
Gonzalez-Candia, Alejandro
Herrera, Emilio A.
Ebensperger, Germán
Cabello, Gertrudis
Valenzuela, Guillermo J.
Serón-Ferré, María
Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs
title Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs
title_full Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs
title_fullStr Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs
title_full_unstemmed Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs
title_short Effects of Melatonin on the Defense to Acute Hypoxia in Newborn Lambs
title_sort effects of melatonin on the defense to acute hypoxia in newborn lambs
topic Endocrinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6640618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31354619
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2019.00433
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