Unlabelled: was to study a systemic level of L-DOPA, dopamine, and norepinephrine, and assess their prognostic value in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) development on an experimental disease model.
Materials And Methods: The investigation was carried out on infant Wistar rats (n=36) divided into a study group (rat infants with experimental ROP, n=17) and a control group (n=19). The animals of both groups were sacrificed on days 14, 21-23, and on days 28-30. The choice of the indicated periods corresponded to the key stages of ROP development in an experiment and was based on the findings of our previous histological studies. Dopamine, L-DOPA, and norepinephrine levels in infant rat blood plasma samples were determined.
Results: On day 14 of the experiment (the period corresponds to the pathological neovascularization induction in the applied model and preclinical ROP in children), mean L-DOPA level in infant rats with ROP (0.31 ng/ml) was significantly decreased compared to that in the controls (0.42 ng/ml) (p≤0.01). On days 21-23 of the experiment (the period corresponds to the growth of pathological extraretinal neovascularization in the applied model and ROP stage 3 in children) the systemic level of L-DOPA was still statistically reduced in the study group (0.87 ng/ml) compared to the control group (1.53 ng/ml) (p≤0.01). On days 28-30 of the experiment (the period corresponds to the regress of neovasculature in the applied model and a spontaneous ROP regress stage in children) the L-DOPA level in blood plasma in the study group (0.33 ng/ml) showed an insignificant upward tendency in reference to the controls (0.21 ng/ml). Mean dopamine and norepinephrine levels had no difference in the groups under study of infant rats within all follow-up periods.
Conclusion: Low systemic level of L-DOPA at the preclinical stage of experimental ROP should be considered as a laboratory prognostic criterion of a developing pathological process; it will enable to use the criterion when working out the measures to optimize the existing screening system for the disease in children.
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