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Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis
There is increasing interest in the association between depression and the development of metabolic diseases. Rosiglitazone, a therapeutic drug used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus, has shown neuroprotective effects in patients with stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. The present study was performed t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5603714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28959186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2017.00293 |
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author | Zhao, Zhan Zhang, Ling Guo, Xu-Dong Cao, Lu-Lu Xue, Teng-Fei Zhao, Xiao-Jie Yang, Dan-Dan Yang, Jin Ji, Juan Huang, Ji-Ye Sun, Xiu-Lan |
author_facet | Zhao, Zhan Zhang, Ling Guo, Xu-Dong Cao, Lu-Lu Xue, Teng-Fei Zhao, Xiao-Jie Yang, Dan-Dan Yang, Jin Ji, Juan Huang, Ji-Ye Sun, Xiu-Lan |
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description | There is increasing interest in the association between depression and the development of metabolic diseases. Rosiglitazone, a therapeutic drug used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus, has shown neuroprotective effects in patients with stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. The present study was performed to evaluate the possible roles of rosiglitazone in in vivo (unpredictable chronic mild stress-induced depressive mouse model) and in vitro (corticosterone-induced cellular model) depressive models. The results showed that rosiglitazone reversed depressive behaviors in mice, as indicated by the forced swimming test and open field test. Rosiglitazone was also found to inhibit the inflammatory response, decrease corticosterone levels, and promote astrocyte proliferation and neuronal axon plasticity in the prefrontal cortex of mice. This series of in vivo and in vitro experiments showed that autophagy among neurons was inhibited in depressive models and that rosiglitazone promoted autophagy by upregulating LKB1, which exerted neuroprotective effects. Rosiglitazone was also found to activate the Akt/CREB pathway by increasing IGF-1R expression and IGF-1 protein levels, thereby playing an anti-apoptotic role in astrocytes. Rosiglitazone’s autophagy promotion and neuroprotective effects were found to be reversed by the PPARγ antagonist T0070907 in primary neurons and by PPARγ knockdown in an N2a cell line. In conclusion, we found that rosiglitazone protects both neurons and astrocytes in in vivo and in vitro depressive models, thereby playing an anti-depressive role. These findings suggest that PPARγ could be a new target in the development of anti-depressive drugs. |
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spelling | pubmed-56037142017-09-28 Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis Zhao, Zhan Zhang, Ling Guo, Xu-Dong Cao, Lu-Lu Xue, Teng-Fei Zhao, Xiao-Jie Yang, Dan-Dan Yang, Jin Ji, Juan Huang, Ji-Ye Sun, Xiu-Lan Front Mol Neurosci Neuroscience There is increasing interest in the association between depression and the development of metabolic diseases. Rosiglitazone, a therapeutic drug used to treat type 2 diabetes mellitus, has shown neuroprotective effects in patients with stroke and Alzheimer’s disease. The present study was performed to evaluate the possible roles of rosiglitazone in in vivo (unpredictable chronic mild stress-induced depressive mouse model) and in vitro (corticosterone-induced cellular model) depressive models. The results showed that rosiglitazone reversed depressive behaviors in mice, as indicated by the forced swimming test and open field test. Rosiglitazone was also found to inhibit the inflammatory response, decrease corticosterone levels, and promote astrocyte proliferation and neuronal axon plasticity in the prefrontal cortex of mice. This series of in vivo and in vitro experiments showed that autophagy among neurons was inhibited in depressive models and that rosiglitazone promoted autophagy by upregulating LKB1, which exerted neuroprotective effects. Rosiglitazone was also found to activate the Akt/CREB pathway by increasing IGF-1R expression and IGF-1 protein levels, thereby playing an anti-apoptotic role in astrocytes. Rosiglitazone’s autophagy promotion and neuroprotective effects were found to be reversed by the PPARγ antagonist T0070907 in primary neurons and by PPARγ knockdown in an N2a cell line. In conclusion, we found that rosiglitazone protects both neurons and astrocytes in in vivo and in vitro depressive models, thereby playing an anti-depressive role. These findings suggest that PPARγ could be a new target in the development of anti-depressive drugs. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5603714/ /pubmed/28959186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2017.00293 Text en Copyright © 2017 Zhao, Zhang, Guo, Cao, Xue, Zhao, Yang, Yang, Ji, Huang and Sun. 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) or licensor 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 | Neuroscience Zhao, Zhan Zhang, Ling Guo, Xu-Dong Cao, Lu-Lu Xue, Teng-Fei Zhao, Xiao-Jie Yang, Dan-Dan Yang, Jin Ji, Juan Huang, Ji-Ye Sun, Xiu-Lan Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis |
title | Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis |
title_full | Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis |
title_fullStr | Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis |
title_short | Rosiglitazone Exerts an Anti-depressive Effect in Unpredictable Chronic Mild-Stress-Induced Depressive Mice by Maintaining Essential Neuron Autophagy and Inhibiting Excessive Astrocytic Apoptosis |
title_sort | rosiglitazone exerts an anti-depressive effect in unpredictable chronic mild-stress-induced depressive mice by maintaining essential neuron autophagy and inhibiting excessive astrocytic apoptosis |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5603714/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28959186 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2017.00293 |
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