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Stress is defined as "the action of nervous and emotional stimuli provoked by the environment on the nervous, endocrine, circulatory and digestive systems of an animal, producing measurable changes on the functional levels of these systems" (1). The goal of this work was to determine the resverasor antioxidant effect through the superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzymatic activity in the rats erythrocyte, and to correlate it with the reproductive parameters, number of corpora lutea (CL). and postimplantation survival (PS). Forty-eight female and 16 male three months old rats of the Wistar strain, were used, kept in a controlled environment, 20±2°C temperature and light-dark cycles of 14 and 10 h, respectively. The animals were fed a balanced diet and they had free access to water. Rats were divided in four groups at random: group 1 was treated with 5 ACTH i.p. ug/kg every 12 h; group 2 received the same ACTH treatment plus a 40 mg/kg oral grape extract supplement; group 3 received only the grape extract, and the last group served as control group and received oral i.p saline solution . The experimental design was 2×2 factorial, with two ACTH levels and two grape extract levels. At the end of the experiment female rats were sacrificed to extract the reproductive tract and determine the number of CL and fetuses. It was observed that the resverasor dose used did not affect erythrocyte SOD activity or reproductive performance measured in terms of CL and PS in rats treated with ACTH and grapes. This indicates that, possibly, rats adapted to chronic stress, and in consequence, to oxidative stress.
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