Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY
Volume 62, Issue -, Pages 120-131Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2018.07.005
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; Ascorbic acid; B-complex vitamins; Glucose bioenergetics; Metal ion homeostasis; Oxidative stress
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Metal ions are crucial for normal neurochemical signaling and perturbations in their homeostasis have been associated with neurodegenerative processes. Hypothesizing that in vivo modulation of key neurochemical processes including metal ion regulation (by transferrin receptor-1: TfR-1) in cells can improve disease outcome, we investigated the efficacy of a complex vitamin supplement (CVS) containing B-vitamins and ascorbic acid in preventing/reversing behavioral decline and neuropathology in rats. Wistar rats (eight weeks-old) were assigned into five groups (n = 8), including controls and those administered CVS (400 mg/kg/day) for two weeks before or after AICl(3) (100 mg/kg)-induced neurotoxicity. Following behavioral assessments, prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus were prepared for biochemical analyses, histology and histochemistry. CVS significantly reversed reduction of exploratory/working memory, frontal-dependent motor deficits, cognitive decline, memory dysfunction and anxiety. These correlated with CVS-dependent modulation of TfP-1 expression that were accompanied by significant reversal of neural oxidative stress in expressed superoxide dismutase, nitric oxide, catalase, glutathione peroxidase and malondialdehyde. Furthermore, CVS inhibited neural bioenergetics dysfunction, with increased labelling of glucokinase within PFC and hippocampus correlating with increased glucose-6 phosphate dehydrogenase and decreased lactate dehydrogenase expressions. These relates to inhibition of over expressed acetylcholinesterase and increased total protein synthesis. Histological and Nissl staining of thin sections corroborated roles of CVS in reversing AICl(3)-induced neuropathology. Summarily, we showed the role of CVS in normalizing important neurochemical molecules linking concurrent progression of oxidative stress, bioenergetics deficits, synaptic dysfunction and cellular hypertrophy during neurodegeneration.
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