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Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice
Euonymus alatus is considered to elicit various beneficial effects against cancer, hyperglycemia, menstrual discomfort, diabetic complications, and detoxification. The young leaves of this plant are exploited as food and also utilized for traditional medicine in East Asian countries, including Korea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7278771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32456069 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox9050449 |
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author | Woo, Yunju Lim, Ji Sun Oh, Jisun Lee, Jeong Soon Kim, Jong-Sang |
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description | Euonymus alatus is considered to elicit various beneficial effects against cancer, hyperglycemia, menstrual discomfort, diabetic complications, and detoxification. The young leaves of this plant are exploited as food and also utilized for traditional medicine in East Asian countries, including Korea and China. Our preliminary study demonstrated that ethanolic extract from the Euonymus alatus leaf (EAE) exhibited the strongest antioxidant enzyme-inducing activity among more than 100 kinds of edible tree leaf extracts. This study investigated whether EAE could attenuate the cognitive deficits caused by oxidative stress in mice. Oral intubation of EAE at 100 mg/kg bw or higher resulted in significant improvements to the memory and behavioral impairment induced via i.p. injection of scopolamine. Furthermore, EAE enhanced the expression levels of hippocampal neurotrophic factors such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor in mice, activated the Nrf2, and the downstream heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) a quintessential antioxidant enzyme. As rutin (quercetin-3-O-rutinose) was abundantly present in EAE and free quercetin was able to induce defensive antioxidant enzymes in an Nrf2-dependent manner, our findings suggested that quercetin derived from rutin via the intestinal microflora played a significant role in the protection of the mouse hippocampus from scopolamine-induced damage through BDNF-mediated Nrf2 activation, thereby dampening cognitive decline. |
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spelling | pubmed-72787712020-06-12 Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice Woo, Yunju Lim, Ji Sun Oh, Jisun Lee, Jeong Soon Kim, Jong-Sang Antioxidants (Basel) Article Euonymus alatus is considered to elicit various beneficial effects against cancer, hyperglycemia, menstrual discomfort, diabetic complications, and detoxification. The young leaves of this plant are exploited as food and also utilized for traditional medicine in East Asian countries, including Korea and China. Our preliminary study demonstrated that ethanolic extract from the Euonymus alatus leaf (EAE) exhibited the strongest antioxidant enzyme-inducing activity among more than 100 kinds of edible tree leaf extracts. This study investigated whether EAE could attenuate the cognitive deficits caused by oxidative stress in mice. Oral intubation of EAE at 100 mg/kg bw or higher resulted in significant improvements to the memory and behavioral impairment induced via i.p. injection of scopolamine. Furthermore, EAE enhanced the expression levels of hippocampal neurotrophic factors such as brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor in mice, activated the Nrf2, and the downstream heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) a quintessential antioxidant enzyme. As rutin (quercetin-3-O-rutinose) was abundantly present in EAE and free quercetin was able to induce defensive antioxidant enzymes in an Nrf2-dependent manner, our findings suggested that quercetin derived from rutin via the intestinal microflora played a significant role in the protection of the mouse hippocampus from scopolamine-induced damage through BDNF-mediated Nrf2 activation, thereby dampening cognitive decline. MDPI 2020-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7278771/ /pubmed/32456069 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox9050449 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Woo, Yunju Lim, Ji Sun Oh, Jisun Lee, Jeong Soon Kim, Jong-Sang Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice |
title | Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice |
title_full | Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice |
title_fullStr | Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice |
title_full_unstemmed | Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice |
title_short | Neuroprotective Effects of Euonymus alatus Extract on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Deficits in Mice |
title_sort | neuroprotective effects of euonymus alatus extract on scopolamine-induced memory deficits in mice |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7278771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32456069 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/antiox9050449 |
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