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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL NEUROANATOMY
卷 112, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2020.101902
关键词
Diabetes mellitus; Streptozotocin; Melatonin; Cognition; Learning and memory
资金
- Shahed University (Tehran, Iran) [1394]
Melatonin treatment can reverse cognitive decline and memory loss in diabetic rats, with improvements in spatial recognition memory, novel object discrimination, and retention and recall. Additionally, melatonin can mitigate oxidative stress and inflammation, upregulate antioxidants, and prevent dendritic spine loss in the hippocampus.
Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM) is linked to attentional deficits and cognition deterioration. The neurohormone melatonin is an endogenous synchronizer of circadian rhythms with multiple protective properties. This research was designed to assess its effect against learning and memory decline in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats. Rats were assigned to control, melatonin-treated control, diabetic, and melatonin-treated diabetic groups. Melatonin was administered i.p. at a dose of 10 mg/kg/day for 47 days. Treatment of diabetic rats with melatonin reversed decline of spatial recognition memory in Y maze, performance of rats in novel object discrimination, and retention and recall in passive avoidance tasks. Furthermore, melatonin appropriately attenuated hippocampal malondialdehyde (MDA) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) and improved superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity and improved mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and nuclear factor (erythroidderived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2) with no significant effect on nitrite, glutathione (GSH) and catalase activity. Besides, hippocampal level of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappa B), interleukin 6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) decreased following melatonin treatment. There was also a reduction of dendritic spines of pyramidal neurons of hippocampal CA1 area in diabetic group that was significantly alleviated upon melatonin treatment. Melatonin could ameliorate learning and memory disturbances in diabetic rats through mitigation of cholinesterase activity, astrocytes, oxidative stress and inflammation and also via upregulation of some antioxidants in addition to its prevention of dendritic spine loss.
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