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Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats
PURPOSE: Cognitive impairment is a complication that most frequently happens in patients with chronic neuropathic pain and has limited effective therapy. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of curcumin on the cognitive deficit in rats with peripheral nerve injury induced-neuropathic pai...
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author | Du, Jingyi Deng, Yifan Qiu, Zhuolin Sun, Guoliang Guo, Yue Hei, Ziqing Li, Xiang |
author_facet | Du, Jingyi Deng, Yifan Qiu, Zhuolin Sun, Guoliang Guo, Yue Hei, Ziqing Li, Xiang |
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description | PURPOSE: Cognitive impairment is a complication that most frequently happens in patients with chronic neuropathic pain and has limited effective therapy. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of curcumin on the cognitive deficit in rats with peripheral nerve injury induced-neuropathic pain. METHODS: The neuropathic pain rat model was constructed using chronic constriction injury (CCI). The curcumin (60 mg/kg) or vehicle was intraperitoneally administered once a day, beginning at 14th day after surgery and continued for 14 consecutive days. The nociceptive threshold tests were measured by paw mechanical withdraw threshold (PMWT) and paw thermal withdrawal latency (PTWL), while the spatial memory abilities were evaluated by the Morris water maze test. The mean counts of bromodeoxyuridine (Brdu)/neuronal nuclei (NeuN) as well as Brdu/doublecortin (DCX) co-labeled cells were used to evaluate neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of hippocampus. The ultrastructure of the synapse in hippocampal region was visualized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). RESULTS: Increased PMWT and PTWL, as well as relieved memory deficits, were found in CCI rats under curcumin administration. Moreover, curcumin treatment increased the number of newly born immature (BrdU/NeuN) and newly generated mature neurons (BrdU/DCX). The TEM examination revealed increased PSD thickness and shorter active zone length as well as narrowed synaptic cleft width in the hippocampal region of CCI rats after curcumin injection. CONCLUSION: Curcumin can alleviate CCI induced nociceptive behaviors and memory deficit. This effect might be associated with hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity improvements, which indicated curcumin as a potential strategy for the cognitive impairment restoration under prolonged neuropathic pain condition. |
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spelling | pubmed-80696802021-04-26 Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats Du, Jingyi Deng, Yifan Qiu, Zhuolin Sun, Guoliang Guo, Yue Hei, Ziqing Li, Xiang J Pain Res Original Research PURPOSE: Cognitive impairment is a complication that most frequently happens in patients with chronic neuropathic pain and has limited effective therapy. The aim of this study was to explore the effects of curcumin on the cognitive deficit in rats with peripheral nerve injury induced-neuropathic pain. METHODS: The neuropathic pain rat model was constructed using chronic constriction injury (CCI). The curcumin (60 mg/kg) or vehicle was intraperitoneally administered once a day, beginning at 14th day after surgery and continued for 14 consecutive days. The nociceptive threshold tests were measured by paw mechanical withdraw threshold (PMWT) and paw thermal withdrawal latency (PTWL), while the spatial memory abilities were evaluated by the Morris water maze test. The mean counts of bromodeoxyuridine (Brdu)/neuronal nuclei (NeuN) as well as Brdu/doublecortin (DCX) co-labeled cells were used to evaluate neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of hippocampus. The ultrastructure of the synapse in hippocampal region was visualized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). RESULTS: Increased PMWT and PTWL, as well as relieved memory deficits, were found in CCI rats under curcumin administration. Moreover, curcumin treatment increased the number of newly born immature (BrdU/NeuN) and newly generated mature neurons (BrdU/DCX). The TEM examination revealed increased PSD thickness and shorter active zone length as well as narrowed synaptic cleft width in the hippocampal region of CCI rats after curcumin injection. CONCLUSION: Curcumin can alleviate CCI induced nociceptive behaviors and memory deficit. This effect might be associated with hippocampal neurogenesis and synaptic plasticity improvements, which indicated curcumin as a potential strategy for the cognitive impairment restoration under prolonged neuropathic pain condition. Dove 2021-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8069680/ /pubmed/33907454 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S299604 Text en © 2021 Du et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Du, Jingyi Deng, Yifan Qiu, Zhuolin Sun, Guoliang Guo, Yue Hei, Ziqing Li, Xiang Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats |
title | Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats |
title_full | Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats |
title_fullStr | Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats |
title_full_unstemmed | Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats |
title_short | Curcumin Alleviates Chronic Pain and Improves Cognitive Impairment via Enhancing Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Sciatic Nerve Constriction Rats |
title_sort | curcumin alleviates chronic pain and improves cognitive impairment via enhancing hippocampal neurogenesis in sciatic nerve constriction rats |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8069680/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33907454 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/JPR.S299604 |
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