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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue 8, Pages 1103-1109Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-014-0085-2
Keywords
PC12; Taxodione; DCFH-DA; Salvia chorassanica Bunge; Lamiaceae
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- Research Affairs of the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences [900996]
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Taxodione, a diterpenoid from the roots of Salvia chorassanica Bunge, possesses cytotoxic, apoptotic, and antimicrobial activity. This study was designed to investigate the protective effects of taxodione on serum/glucose deprivation-induced ischemic injury in PC12 cells and related mechanisms. In an in vitro model of ischemia, PC12 cells were exposed to serum and glucose deprivation for 6 and 18 h. The protective effects of the methanol extract of S. chorassanica and taxodione were assessed using alamarBlue (R) assay. Intracellular ROS production was measured by fluorimetry using 2',7'-dichlorofluorescin diacetate (DCFH-DA). The levels of PARP, Bcl-2, and Bax proteins were detected after western blot analysis. It was shown that taxodione (0.2-1.5 mu M) significantly increased cell viability in a dose-dependent manner after ischemic insult. Taxodione has antioxidant activity and protects PC12 cells against oxidative stress-induced apoptotic cell death. Meanwhile, pretreatment with taxodione significantly induced an increase in Bcl-2 and a decrease in Bax protein level. The results of this study confirmed the protective effect of taxodione in serum/glucose deprivation-induced ischemic injury and the putative role of apoptosis as a underling mechanisms. Thus, it would be fair to consider taxodione as a promising ingredient of S. chorassanica for the expansion on novel class of anti-ischemic agents.
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