Tan Zihu, Qiu Jing, Zhang Yuting, Yang Qiong, Yin Xixi, Li Jia, Liu Guangya, Li Hengfei, Yang Guang
Department of Geriatrics, Hubei Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China.
Hubei Provincial Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan, China.
Front Neurosci. 2021 May 6;15:646537. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.646537. eCollection 2021.
Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) ubiquitously disturb all patients with dementia at some point in the disease course. Although a plethora of non-pharmacological and pharmacological methods targeting the relief BPSD have been developed, the therapeutic effect is still far from ideal. Here, a rat BPSD model combining the physiological changes with mental insults was successfully established. Meanwhile, our results indicated that TMP attenuated anxious behavior using an elevated plus maze (EPM) test, ameliorated recognitive ability and sociability through a novel object recognition test (NORT) and social interaction test (SIT), and improved learning and memory impairments a Barnes maze in rats with bilateral common carotid arteries occlusion (BCCAO) plus chronic restraint stress (CRS). Given that hippocampus chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) always causes damage to the hippocampus, and the majority of cognitive impairments, behaviors, and stress responses are associated with pathology in the hippocampus including anxiety and depression, we paid attention to investigate the role of the hippocampus in BPSD. Our results indicated that Tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) attenuated anxiety and ameliorated recognitive ability, sociability, learning, and memory impairments due to alleviating dendritic and spine deficits, and upregulating the expression of synapse-related proteins (including PSD95, SYN, GAP43, SYP) in the hippocampus. We also found that the underlying mechanism was that TMP could activate the TrkB/ERK/CREB signaling pathway to promote synaptic remodeling and . Mechanically, the present study enlarges the therapeutic scope of TMP in neurodegenerative disorders and provides basic knowledge and feasible candidates for treating BPSD, particularly for vascular dementia.
痴呆的行为和心理症状(BPSD)在疾病过程中的某个阶段普遍困扰着所有痴呆患者。尽管已经开发出大量针对缓解BPSD的非药物和药物方法,但治疗效果仍远不理想。在此,成功建立了一种将生理变化与精神损伤相结合的大鼠BPSD模型。同时,我们的结果表明,川芎嗪(TMP)通过高架十字迷宫(EPM)试验减轻焦虑行为,通过新物体识别试验(NORT)和社会互动试验(SIT)改善认知能力和社交能力,并改善双侧颈总动脉闭塞(BCCAO)加慢性束缚应激(CRS)大鼠在巴恩斯迷宫中的学习和记忆障碍。鉴于海马慢性脑灌注不足(CCH)总是会导致海马损伤,并且大多数认知障碍、行为和应激反应都与海马的病理变化有关,包括焦虑和抑郁,我们关注研究海马在BPSD中的作用。我们的结果表明,川芎嗪(TMP)减轻焦虑并改善认知能力、社交能力、学习和记忆障碍,这是由于减轻了树突和棘突缺陷,并上调了海马中突触相关蛋白(包括PSD95、SYN、GAP43、SYP)的表达。我们还发现其潜在机制是TMP可以激活TrkB/ERK/CREB信号通路以促进突触重塑。从机制上讲,本研究扩大了TMP在神经退行性疾病中的治疗范围,并为治疗BPSD,特别是血管性痴呆提供了基础知识和可行的候选药物。