Effects of nucleoside-nucleotide mixture on memory and brain neurotransmitter in mice

Autor: Wu, Hsueh-Hua, 吳雪華
Rok vydání: 1997
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 85
Alzheimer''s disease is a continued and incapable of restoring brain neurodegenerative disease, which causes memory impairment. Extracellular nucleosidesand nucleotides can stimulate proliferation of astrocytes, nerve growth factor (NGF) synthesis, and increase the concentration of NGF in brain, which ameliorate age-related memory deficits in rodents. We studied the effect of dietary nucleosidesand nucleotides mixture (NNM) on memory deficient mice, and analyzed the brain neurotransmitter in mice. The experiment used 1 and 7 month old male senescenceaccelerated mice (SAM), 1 month old male ddY and poor learning mice (PLM). Theywere separated to two groups, one group was fed with 20% casein diet (control),the other fed with 20% casein diet supplemented with 0.5% NNM for 12 weeks. Theambulatory activity of the mice was measured after 3 weeks, and memory test wasstudied by a single-trial passive avoidance test after 4,8, and 12 weeks. After finishing behavioral test, mice were killed, each brain was dissected into the four brain regions (cortex, hippocampus, striatum and substantia nigra), tissues were homogenized, after centrifuged and filtrate was directly injected into the microbore column high performance liquid chromatography-electrochemical detection(microbore HPLC- ECD) system and the metabolites of monoamine neurotransmitterwere be assayed. The results show that body weight, food intake and locomotion of the mice areabout the same between the two groups. In those memory test, there are not significanted effect on 1 month old SAM-P/8 strain mice fed with supplemented 0.5% NNM. For the 7 month old SAM-P/8 strain mice fed with supplemented 0.5% NNMafter 12 weeks, we measured the average time of successful memory 24 hours after the punishment and we found it significantly higher than the control group (p
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