Regulation of M1-receptor mRNA stability by smilagenin and its significance in improving memory of aged rats
| Autor: | Rui Zhang, Antonia Orsi, Zongqin Xia, Zimei Wang, Daryl Rees, Pingping Wu, Yaer Hu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Aging medicine.medical_specialty 3 3'-Diaminobenzidine CHO Cells Muscarinic Antagonists Transfection Tritium Binding Competitive Rats Sprague-Dawley Cricetulus Cricetinae Memory improvement Internal medicine Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor Spirostans medicine Animals Cholinesterases RNA Messenger Maze Learning Receptor Cholinesterase Analysis of Variance Memory Disorders Binding Sites Dose-Response Relationship Drug biology General Neuroscience Receptor Muscarinic M1 Brain Muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 Rats Disease Models Animal Dose–response relationship Endocrinology Gene Expression Regulation Tacrine biology.protein Cholinesterase Inhibitors Neurology (clinical) Geriatrics and Gerontology Acetylcholine Developmental Biology medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Neurobiology of Aging. 31:1010-1019 |
| ISSN: | 0197-4580 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2008.06.008 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this work is to study the effect of smilagenin on the mRNA stability of muscarinic receptor subtype 1 (M(1); m1 mRNA) in aged rat brains and its significance in improving memory. The Y-maze avoidance task showed that oral administration of smilagenin significantly improved spatial memory performance in aged rats. Mechanistic studies showed that smilagenin was neither a ligand of the M receptors nor a cholinesterase inhibitor, while radioligand binding assays revealed that smilagenin significantly increased the M(1)-receptor density. The increase of M(1)-receptor density correlated with memory improvement. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) revealed that the m1 mRNA in m1 gene-transfected CHO cells increased significantly, and the average half-life of m1 mRNA was approximately doubled by smilagenin treatment. These results suggest that smilagenin improves memory of aged rats at least partially by increasing the stability of m1 mRNA. However since the ChAT activity in the cortex of aged rats was also elevated by smilagenin, it cannot be excluded that the increase of intrinsic acetylcholine excretion also plays a role in the memory-improvement effect of smilagenin. |
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