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Zhang MJ, Song ML, Zhang Y, Yang XM, Lin HS, Chen WC, Zhong XD, He CY, Li T, Liu Y, Chen WG, Sun HT, Ao HQ, He SQ. SNS alleviates depression-like behaviors in CUMS mice by regluating dendritic spines via NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy. J Ethnopharmacol 2023; 312:116360. [PMID: 37028613 DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2023.116360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Revised: 03/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2023] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE Depression is one of the most common mood disturbances worldwide. The Si-ni-san formula (SNS) is a famous classic Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) widely used to treat depression for thousands of years in clinics. However, the mechanism underlying the therapeutic effect of SNS in improving depression-like behaviors following chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) remains unknown. AIM OF THE STUDY This study aimed to investigate whether SNS alleviates depression-like behaviors in CUMS mice by regulating dendritic spines via NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy in vitro and in vivo. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS In vivo, mice were exposed to CUMS for 42 days, and SNS (4.9, 9.8, 19.6 g/kg/d), fluoxetine (10 mg/kg/d), 3-methyladenine (3-MA) (30 mg/kg/d), rapamycin(1 mg/kg/d), and deferoxamine (DFO) (200 mg/kg/d) were conducted once daily during the last 3 weeks of the CUMS procedure. In vitro, a depressive model was established by culture of SH-SY5Y cells with corticosterone, followed by treatment with different concentrations of freeze-dried SNS (0.001, 0.01, 0.1 mg/mL) and rapamycin (10 nM), NCOA4-overexpression, Si-NCOA4. After the behavioral test (open-field test (OFT), sucrose preference test (SPT), forced swimming test (FST) and tail suspension test (TST), dendritic spines, GluR2 protein expression, iron concentration, and ferritinophagy-related protein levels (P62, FTH, NCOA4, LC3-II/LC3-I) were tested in vitro and in vivo using immunohistochemistry, golgi staining, immunofluorescence, and Western blot assays. Finally, HEK-293T cells were transfected by si-NCOA4 or GluR2-and NCOA4-overexpression plasmid and treated with corticosterone(100 μM), freeze-dried SNS(0.01 mg/mL), rapamycin(25 nM), and 3-MA(5 mM). The binding amount of GluR2, NCOA4, and LC3 was assessed by the co-immunoprecipitation (CO-IP) assay. RESULTS 3-MA, SNS, and DFO promoted depressive-like behaviors in CUMS mice during OFT, SPT, FST and TST, improved the amount of the total, thin, mushroom spine density and enhanced GluR2 protein expression in the hippocampus. Meanwhile, treatment with SNS decreased iron concentrations and inhibited NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy activation in vitro and in vivo. Importantly, 3-MA and SNS could prevent the binding of GluR2, NCOA4 and LC3 in corticosterone-treated HEK-293T, and rapamycin reversed this phenomenon after treatment with SNS. CONCLUSION SNS alleviates depression-like behaviors in CUMS mice by regulating dendritic spines via NCOA4-mediated ferritinophagy.
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- Ming-Jia Zhang
- School Basic Medicine Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University(1), Zhejiang, 310053, PR China; Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- First Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510405, PR China.
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- Department of Psychology, School of Economics and Management, Guang Zhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510405, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China; School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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- Department of Psychology, School of Economics and Management, Guang Zhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510405, PR China.
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- Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China; School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510515, PR China.
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Li XL, Zou XM, Nie G, Song ML, Li G, Cui W. Role of hydroxyethyl starch in ischemia-reperfusion injury in rat intestinal transplantation. Transplant Proc 2014; 45:2491-6. [PMID: 23953568 DOI: 10.1016/j.transproceed.2013.02.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2012] [Revised: 01/15/2013] [Accepted: 02/16/2013] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE This study was designed to evaluate the role of 0%, 3%, 6% hydroxyethyl starch (HES) and University of Wisconsin (UW) perfusion and preservation solutions on ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) of rat intestinal transplantations, solutions, respectively. MATERIALS AND METHODS Rats underwent orthotopic intestinal transplantation (Lewis to Lewis) after using perfusion and preservation saline (group l), 3% HES (group 2), 6% HES (group 3), or UW (group 4) solutions. The change in weight was recorded from preoperative to postoperative day (POD) 30. At 30 minutes after reperfusion, we harvested intestinal juice preoperatively as well as at 30 minutes after reperfusion and on POD 1 and 3 when recipients underwent open surgery for maltose absorption tests and sampling. The Park' scores of IRI were evaluated by light microscopy after hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. RESULTS An increased weight was more evident in group 2 than the other groups, particularly the on POD 1 and POD 3 (P < .05). It was significantly greater than groups 1 and 3 on POD 7 (P < .05). Compared with the other groups, the 30-minute post-reperfusion. Park score and intestinal juice content in group 2 was decreased significantly (P < .01), while in group 3 the Park score was increased, and the maltose absorption level decreased significantly (P < .05). CONCLUSION Three percent HES solution attenuated IRI in rat intestinal transplantation. High-concentration HES solutions were unfit for intestinal preservation. Thus the adverse effects of UW solution may be attribute at least in part to its high HES, concentration.
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- X L Li
- Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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Liu C, Zhang LF, Song ML, Bao HG, Zhao CJ, Li N. Highly efficient dissociation of oxygen from hemoglobin in Tibetan chicken embryos compared with lowland chicken embryos incubated in hypoxia. Poult Sci 2010; 88:2689-94. [PMID: 19903969 DOI: 10.3382/ps.2009-00311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Oxygen is one of the critical determinants for normal embryonic and fetal development. In avian embryos, lack of oxygen will lead to high fetal mortality, heteroplasia, and cardiovascular dysfunction. Tibetan chicken is a breed native to Tibet that could survive and keep higher hatchability regardless of negative effects of hypoxia. Generally, adaptive animals in high altitudes are characterized by higher hemoglobin concentrations and oxygen affinity. In the present study, the capacity of oxygen supply in late chick embryo (including d 17, 19, and 21) was compared between Tibetan chicken and a lowland breed, Dwarf White chicken, by determining the hemoglobin concentrations and oxygen equilibrium curves in both hypoxic (13% O(2)) and normoxic (21% O(2)) conditions. The results showed that a higher level of hemoglobin concentration was induced by hypoxia in Tibetan chicken embryos, and the hemoglobin could perform with better cooperativity and deliver oxygen to tissues more easily. Further investigation revealed that the carbonic anhydrase II mRNA in red blood cells of Tibetan chicken was increasingly induced to a higher level in hypoxia than that of the lowland breed. These results suggested that the stronger capacity of oxygen dissociation was an important characteristic of Tibetan chicken embryo to survive in hypoxia and the upregulating mode of carbonic anhydrase II mRNA might assist this dissociation. Therefore, for avian at high altitudes, the efficient dissociation of oxygen might reveal another aspect associated with the hypoxia adaptability.
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- C Liu
- State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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