Active Fraction Combination from Liuwei Dihuang Decoction (LW-AFC) Alleviated the LPS-Induced Long-Term Potentiation Impairment and Glial Cells Activation in Hippocampus of Mice by Modulating Immune Responses

Neuroinflammation is known as a typical feature associated with many neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and impairs the synaptic plasticity of the hippocampus. LW-AFC is an active fraction combination being extracted from Liuwei Dihuang decoction, a classic traditional Chinese medicine prescription. This study aimed to investigate the effects of LW-AFC on synaptic plasticity in mice with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment. The results showed that the administration of LPS caused fever and long-term potentiation (LTP) impairment in mice. The pretreatment with LW-AFC had an antipyretic effect on fever and improved the impaired LTP induced by LPS, alleviated the microglia and astrocytes activation in the hippocampus, regulated the abnormal T-lymphocyte subpopulation in the spleen and blood caused by LPS, and reduced the aberrant secretion of cytokines in the brain and plasma. The compounds paeoniflorin, morroniside, and loganic acid in LW-AFC regulated the TNF-α secretion in non-LPS- and LPS-stimulated BV-2 cells. These data suggest that LW-AFC improves the LPS-induced impairment of LTP and alleviates the activation of glial cells in the hippocampus, which might be associated with modulating immune responses..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2019

Enthalten in:

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - (2019)

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ju Zeng [VerfasserIn]
Bin Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Yan Huang [VerfasserIn]
Xiaorui Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Chen Wang [VerfasserIn]
Na Sun [VerfasserIn]
Gang Liu [VerfasserIn]
Xiaorui Cheng [VerfasserIn]
Yongxiang Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Wenxia Zhou [VerfasserIn]

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doi:

10.1155/2019/3040972

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DOAJ036202789