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49. Brain-derived Neurotrophic Factor Signaling Mediates the Antidepressant-like Effect of the Total Flavonoids of Alpiniae Oxyphyllae Fructus in Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress Mice.

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Yan, Tingxu, Wu, Bo, Liao, Zheng ‐ zheng, Liu, Bing, Zhao, Xu, Bi, Kai ‐ shun, Jia, Ying, Liao, Zheng-Zheng, and Bi, Kai-Shun

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MENTAL depression, ANIMAL experimentation, ANIMALS, ANTIDEPRESSANTS, BIOLOGICAL models, CELLULAR signal transduction, FLAVONOIDS, MICE, NERVE tissue proteins, PLANTS, PSYCHOLOGICAL stress, PHARMACODYNAMICS
Abstract

The present study verified the antidepressant-like effects of the total flavonoids of Alpinia oxyphylla Miq. (AOF) using the chronic unpredictable mild stresses paradigm and explored the mechanism that underlies antidepressant-like effects of AOF in mice. Previous research has shown that tropomyosin-related kinase B (TrkB) receptor-mediated extracellular regulated protein kinases (ERK) signaling pathways participate in depression pathophysiology. Therefore, we aimed to explore whether AOF improved depression-like behaviors by increasing activity of ERK pathways mediated by TrkB. Results showed that AOF significantly reduced the immobility time in the forced swimming test and increased the sucrose preference in sucrose preference test. In addition, decreased phosphorylated cyclic adenosine monophosphate response element-binding protein (pCREB)/CREB, pERK/ERK, and pTrkB/TrkB levels in the hippocampus induced by chronic unpredictable mild stresses were reversed by intragastric administration of AOF. Results suggested that AOF increased pCREB/CREB, pERK/ERK, and pTrkB/TrkB levels by acting on the TrkB receptor. To verify this hypothesis, mice were pretreated with the TrkB inhibitor K252a (or 0.1% dimethyl sulfoxide, intraperitoneally, 2 weeks), before the intragastric administration of AOF. This resulted in an absence of antidepressant-like effects, as well as no activation of pERK/pCREB/BDNF signaling pathways. Results demonstrated that AOF might exert antidepressant-like effects by targeting TrkB receptor-mediated pERK/pCREB/BDNF signal systems, which could help to identify the AOF receptor. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2016
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