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FOOD & FUNCTION
卷 10, 期 2, 页码 1212-1224出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8fo02474j
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- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2018M630942]
- Science and Technology Project of Guangzhou [201604020003]
- High-Level University Construction Project of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine [A1-AFD018171Z11096]
The aim of the present study was to explore whether the supercritical-carbon dioxide fluid extract from flowers and buds of Chrysanthemum indicum (SEC) exhibits antidepressant-like effects in a chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS)-induced mice model. Firstly, SEC was found to reverse a CUMS-induced decrease in the body weight gain in mice. Next, SEC was found to alleviate CUMS-induced depressive-like behavior, evidenced by the reversal of the decrease in the sucrose consumption in the sucrose preference test (SPT), the increase in the locomotor activity in the open field test (OPF), and the alleviation of immobility duration in both the forced swimming test (FST), and tail-suspension test (TST). SEC also attenuated CUMS-induced hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis by decreasing the levels of serum corticosterone and (CORT) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), and hypothalamus corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH). In addition, SEC was found to suppress the expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines, including the tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-, interleukin (IL)-1, and IL-6 in the hippocampal of CUMS mice. Interestingly, further investigations demonstrated that SEC inhibited CUMS-induced activation of the nuclear factor kappa B (NF-B) and NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasomes pathways but upregulated brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) expression and promoted phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and cAMP-response element-binding protein (CREB) in hippocampal. In summary, SEC was able to alleviate depressive-like behavior in a CUMS-induced mice model, accompanied by inhibitory roles in the hyperactivity of the HPA axis and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression. Modulating the NF-B/NLRP3 and BDNF/CREB/ERK pathways contributed to SEC-mediated antidepressant-like effects.
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