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METABOLIC BRAIN DISEASE
Volume 37, Issue 2, Pages 343-357Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-021-00897-z
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Streptozotocin; Curcumin nanoparticles; Brain; Amino acids; Oxidative stress; Immunohistochemistry
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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. This study found that curcumin nanoparticles (CNs) may effectively alleviate the behavioral, neurochemical and histopathological alterations in an AD animal model.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that afflicts millions of people all over the world. Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection of a sub-diabetogenic dose of streptozotocin (STZ) was established as an experimental animal model of AD. The present study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of curcumin nanoparticles (CNs) against the behavioral, neurochemical and histopathological alterations induced by ICV-STZ. The animals were divided into: control animals, the animal model of AD that received a single bilateral ICV microinjection of STZ, and the animals protected by a daily oral administration of CNs for 6 days before the ICV-STZ injection. The animals of all groups were subjected to surgical operation on the 7th day of administration. Then the administration of distilled water or CNs was continued for 8 days. The ICV-STZ microinjection produced cognitive impairment as evident from the behavioral Morris water maze (MWM) test and induced oxidative stress in the cortex and hippocampus as indicated by the significant increases in lipid peroxidation and nitric oxide (NO) levels and the significant decrease in reduced glutathione (GSH) levels. It also produced a significant increase in acetylcholinesterase (AChE) and tumor necrosis-alpha (TNF-alpha) and a significant decrease in Na+,K + -ATPase. In addition, a significant increase in amino acid neurotransmitters occurred in the hippocampus, whereas a significant decrease was obtained in the cortex of STZ-induced AD rats. CNs ameliorated the behavioral, immunohistochemical and most of the neurochemical alterations induced by STZ in the hippocampus and cortex. It may be concluded that CNs might be considered as a promising therapeutic agent for the treatment of AD.
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