Effects of Puerarin on the Ovariectomy-Induced Depressive-Like Behavior in ICR Mice and Its Possible Mechanism of Action
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Ariyawan Tantipongpiradet 1, Orawan Monthakantirat 1, Onchuma Vipatpakpaiboon 1, Charinya Khampukdee 1
, Kaoru Umehara 2, Hiroshi Noguchi 2, Hironori Fujiwara 3, Kinzo Matsumoto 3, Nazim Sekeroglu 4, Anake Kijjoa 5,* and Yaowared Chulikhit 1,*
Ariyawan Tantipongpiradet 1, Orawan Monthakantirat 1, Onchuma Vipatpakpaiboon 1, Charinya Khampukdee 1, Kaoru Umehara 2, Hiroshi Noguchi 2, Hironori Fujiwara 3, Kinzo Matsumoto 3, Nazim Sekeroglu 4, Anake Kijjoa 5,* and Yaowared Chulikhit 1,*
1
Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
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Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Yada 52-1, Shizuoka-shi, Shizuoka 422-8526, Japan
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Division of Medicinal Pharmacology, Institute of Natural Medicine, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Killis 7 Aralik University, Killis 79000, Turkey
5
ICBAS-Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar and CIIMAR, Rua de Jorge Viterbo Ferreira, 228, 4050-313 Porto, Portugal
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Molecules 2019, 24(24), 4569; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24244569
Received: 23 September 2019 / Revised: 5 December 2019 / Accepted: 11 December 2019 / Published: 13 December 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the Joint Symposia of MESMAP-5 & ISPBS-5)
Daily treatment of ovariectomized (OVX) ICR mice with puerarin, a glycosyl isoflavone isolated from the root bark of Pueraria candollei var. mirifica, and 17β-estradiol attenuated ovariectomy-induced depression-like behavior, as indicated by a decrease in immobility times in the tail suspension test (TST) and the forced swimming test (FST), an increase in the uterine weight and volume, a decrease in serum corticosterone levels, and dose-dependently normalized the downregulated transcription of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and estrogen receptor (Erβ and Erα) mRNAs. Like 17β-estradiol, puerarin also inhibited ovariectomy-induced suppression of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus (increased the number of doublecortin (DCX)-immunosuppressive cells). These results suggest that puerarin exerts antidepressant-like effects in OVX animals, possibly by attenuating the OVX-induced hyperactivation of the HPA axis and/or normalizing the downregulated transcription of BDNF and ER mRNA in the brain.
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Keywords:
puerarin; Pueraria candollei var. mirifica; ovariectomy; forced swimming test; tail suspension test; neurogenesis
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Tantipongpiradet, A.; Monthakantirat, O.; Vipatpakpaiboon, O.; Khampukdee, C.; Umehara, K.; Noguchi, H.; Fujiwara, H.; Matsumoto, K.; Sekeroglu, N.; Kijjoa, A.; Chulikhit, Y. Effects of Puerarin on the Ovariectomy-Induced Depressive-Like Behavior in ICR Mice and Its Possible Mechanism of Action. Molecules 2019, 24, 4569.
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