Journal
MOLECULAR NUTRITION & FOOD RESEARCH
Volume 61, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.201700313
Keywords
Aged rats; Antioxidant; Grifola frondosa; Memory impairment; Polysaccharides
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31501894]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China [2015A030310036]
- Special Foundation of Public Welfare Research and Capacity Building of Guangdong Province [2016A030303060, 2017A010105012]
- Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou Municipality [201607010272]
- Department of Science and Technology
- First Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Pharmaceutical University [GYFYLH201312]
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Scope: Grifola frondosa is an edible/medicinal mushroom with great nutritional value and bioactivity. The present study was performed to evaluate the beneficial effect of polysaccharides isolated from Grifola frondosa on memory impairment in aged rats. Methods and results: 20-month-old rats were gavaged with Grifola frondosa polysaccharides (GFP) for 8 weeks. Morris Water Maze test revealed that GFP administration significantly improved memory impairment in aged rats. GFP supply was also found to attenuate age-associated changes of brain histology and ultrastructure observed by light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Moreover, the increase of total antioxidant capacity (T-AOC), glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activity, superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity, catalase (CAT) activity, as well as the decreased nitric oxide (NO) and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels, were consistent with the behavioral results. Conclusion: These findings indicated that oral administration of GFP could improve memory impairment via antioxidant action, and dietary supplementation with GFP may provide potential benefits on brain aging.
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