title: Structural study of the acute effect of Karwinskia humboldtiana on cerebral motor cortex, hippocampus, and caudate nucleus of the rat.
abstract: 1. Acute effects of Karwinskia humboldtiana (Kh) ingestion were studied in some cerebral motor regions. 2. In motor cortex, widening of Virchow-Robin spaces and hyperchromasia occurred throughout the study. 3. In CA1 region of hippocampus, hyperchromasia, swelling of cell nuclei and neuronal shrinkage; were observed at the various stages. 4. In caudate nucleus, cell shrinkage and nuclear swelling occurred throughout the study. 5. Cell death images were observed in all areas studied. 6. It is suggested that a toxic effect is produced by Kh fruit, and that tissue damages may be closely related to the motor non-paralytic disturbances observed after its ingestion.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio de Morfología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Ortiz
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Gonzalez-Burgos
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Feria-Velasco
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002421:Caudate Nucleus / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D016923:Cell Death / Q000187:drug effects; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects*; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects; D010939:Plant Poisoning / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D011712:Pyramidal Tracts / Q000166:cytology / Q000187:drug effects; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains