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NUTRIENTS
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nu13072445
Keywords
fish protein hydrolysate; anxiety; burying test; rodent
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Anxiety is a common psychiatric disorder, and natural products may have comparable anxiolytic effects as benzodiazepines. However, the interaction of bioactive peptides with the gut-brain axis to sustain anxiolytic effects remains poorly understood.
Anxiety appears among the most frequent psychiatric disorders. During recent years, a growing incidence of anxiety disorders can be attributed, at least in part, to the modification of our eating habits. To treat anxiety disorders, clinicians use benzodiazepines, which unfortunately display many side effects. Herein, the anxiolytic-like properties of two natural products ( ffS1casein hydrolysate and Gabolysat (R)) were investigated in rats and compared to the efficacy of benzodiazepine (diazepam). Thus, the conditioned defensive burying test was performed after a unique oral dose of 15 mg/kg, at two time-points (60 min and then 30 min post oral gavage) to show potential fast-onset of anxiolytic effect. Both natural products proved to be as efficient as diazepam to reduce the time rats spent burying the probe (anxiety level). Additionally, when investigated as early as 30 min post oral gavage, Gabolysat (R) also revealed a fast-anxiolytic activity. To date, identification of bioactive peptide, as well as how they interact with the gut-brain axis to sustain such anxiolytic effect, still remains poorly understood. Regardless, this observational investigation argues for the consideration of natural compounds in care pathway.
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