Phenylbutyrate ameliorates prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and nucleus accumbens neural atrophy as well as synaptophysin and GFAP stress in aging mice

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Recent reports on brain aging suggest that oxidative stress and inflammatory processes contribute to aging. Interestingly, sodium phenylbutyrate (PBA) is an inhibitor of histone deacetylase, which has anti-inflammatory properties. Several reports have suggested the effect of PBA on learning and memory processes, however there are no studies of the effect of this inhibitor of histone deacetylase on aging. Consequently, in the present study, the effect of PBA was studied in 18-month-old mice. The animals were administered PBA for 2 months after locomotor activity treatment and Morris water maze tests were performed. The Golgi-Cox staining technique and immunohistochemistry for glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and synaptophysin were performed for the morphological procedures. The administration of PBA improves learning and memory according to the Morris water maze test compared to vehicle-treated animals, which had unchanged locomotor activity. Using Golgi-Cox staining, dendritic length and the number of dendritic spines were measured in limbic regions, such as the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), prefrontal cortex (PFC) layer 3, and the CA1 of the dorsal hippocampus. In addition, PBA increased the number of dendritic spines in the PFC, NAcc, and CA1 subregions of the hippocampus with an increase in dendritic length only in the CA1 region. Moreover, PBA reduced the levels of the GFAP and increased the levels of synaptophysin in the studied regions. Thus, PBA can be a useful pharmacological tool to prevent or delay synaptic plasticity damage and cognitive impairment caused by age.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:74

Enthalten in:

Synapse (New York, N.Y.) - 74(2020), 11 vom: 12. Nov., Seite e22177

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Carvajal-Flores, Fabiola Natividad [VerfasserIn]
Díaz, Alfonso [VerfasserIn]
Flores-Gómez, Gabriel D [VerfasserIn]
de la Cruz, Fidel [VerfasserIn]
Flores, Gonzalo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aging
Dendrites
Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein
Glial fibrillary astrocytic protein, mouse
Hippocampus
Journal Article
Memory and learning
Neuroprotective Agents
Nucleus accumbens
Phenylbutyrates
Prefrontal cortex
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sodium phenylbutyrate
Synaptophysin

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Date Completed 10.08.2021

Date Revised 10.08.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/syn.22177

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311109500