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BT-11 improves stress-induced memory impairments through increment of glucose utilization and total neural cell adhesion molecule levels in rat brains
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- Issue Date
- 2008-08-21
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Citation
- J Neurosci Res. 87(1):260-268
- Keywords
- Animals ; Avoidance Learning/drug effects ; Brain/drug effects/*metabolism/radionuclide imaging ; Cyclohexylamines/therapeutic use ; Disease Models, Animal ; Exploratory Behavior/drug effects ; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18/metabolism ; Glucose/*metabolism ; Maze Learning/drug effects ; Memory Disorders/*drug therapy/etiology/pathology/physiopathology ; Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules/*metabolism ; Phytotherapy/*methods ; Polygala/*chemistry ; Positron-Emission Tomography/methods ; Rats ; Rats, Wistar ; Stress, Psychological/complications
- Abstract
- In Oriental medicine, roots of Polygala tenuifolia Willdenow have been known to be an important herb that exhibits sedative effects in insomnia, palpitation with anxiety, restlessness, and disorientation in humans. We previously reported that BT-11, extracted from those roots, improved scopolamine-induced amnesia in rats and inhibited acetylcholinesterase activities in vitro. Therefore, we proposed that BT-11 could remedy stress-induced memory deficits in rats. In this study, the stress-induced memory impairments in rats were significantly reversed almost to the control level by BT-11 treatment. To seek an active component of BT-11 that plays an important role in antipsychotic effects, we compared BT-11 with 3,4,5-trimethoxycinnamic acid (TMCA), which is a constituent of those root extracts. However, the effects of TMCA were less or were not consistent with those of BT-11 in some of tests. In particular, BT-11 reversed the stress-induced reduction of glucose utilization by [(18)fluorodeoxyglucose]FDG-PET and the levels of neural cell adhesion molecule (NCAM) in rat brains to the control levels, whereas TMCA did not. Therefore, BT-11 improved stress-induced memory impairments through increment of glucose utilization and total NCAM levels in rat brains. In conclusion, BT-11 may be strongly effective against stress-induced amnesia in rats, through the combined effects of TMCA and other active components of BT-11.
- ISSN
- 1097-4547 (Electronic)
- Language
- English
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- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18712849
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/67808
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