L-3-n-butylphthalide protects against vascular dementia via activation of the Akt kinase pathway**
Yaping Huai
Yanhong Dong
Jing Xu
Nan Meng
Chunfeng Song
Wenbin Li
Peiyuan Lv
摘要：As a neuroprotective drug for the treatment of ischemic stroke, 3-n-butylphthalide, a celery seed ex-tract, has been approved by the State Food and Drug Administration of China as a clinical therapeutic drug for ischemic stroke patients. L-3-n-butylphthalide possesses significant efficacy in the treatment of acute ischemic stroke. The activated Akt kinase pathway can prevent the death of nerve cel s and exhibit neuroprotective effects in the brain after stroke. This study provides the hypothesis that l-3-n-butylphthalide has a certain therapeutic effect on vascular dementia, and its mechanism depends on the activation of the Akt kinase pathway. A vascular dementia mouse model was established by cere-bral repetitive ischemia/reperfusion, and intragastrical y administered l-3-n-butylphthalide daily for 28 consecutive days after ischemia/reperfusion, or 7 consecutive days before ischemia/reperfusion. The Morris water maze test showed significant impairment of spatial learning and memory at 4 weeks after operation, but intragastric administration of l-3-n-butylphthalide, especial y pretreatment with l-3-n-butylphthalide, significantly reversed these changes. Thionine staining and western blot analylsis showed that preventive and therapeutic application of l-3-n-butylphthalide can reduce loss of pyrami-dal neurons in the hippocampal CA1 region and al eviate nerve damage in mice with vascular demen-tia. In addition, phosphorylated Akt expression in hippocampal tissue increased significantly after l-3-n-butylphthalide treatment. Experimental findings demonstrate that l-3-n-butylphthalide has preventive and therapeutic effects on vascular dementia, and its mechanism may be mediated by upregulation of phosphorylated Akt in the hippocampus.
机标关键词：vascular dementiaischemic strokeneuroprotective effectsMorris water maze testtherapeutic effectslearning and memoryDrug Administrationwestern blot
资助基金：This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, (No.81241037)the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, (No. H2013307046)
论文发表日期：2013-01-01
在线出版日期：2025-08-15（本平台首次上网日期，不代表文献的发表时间）
页数：10( 1733-1742 )
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