Prevention of age-associated neurodegeneration and promotion of healthy brain ageing in female Wistar rats by long term use of bacosides |
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| Authors: | Manisha Rastogi Rudra P. Ojha P. C. Prabu B. Parimala Devi Aruna Agrawal G. P. Dubey |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Centre for Advanced Research in Indian System of Medicine (CARISM), SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India;(2) Central Animal Facility (CAF), SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India;(3) Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemical and Biotechnology, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India;(4) Centre for Psychosomatic and Biofeedback Medicine, IMS, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India;(5) Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, CCRAS, New Delhi, India; |
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| Abstract: | Bacopa monnieri (L.), popularly known as Brahmi, is a revered Ayurvedic medicinal plant used as nerve tonic since time immemorial. The present study aims to investigate the neuroprotective effect of bacosides, the active saponins of Bacopa monnieri (L.) against age associated neurodegeneration and its impact over the prevention of Senile Dementia of Alzheimer’s Type (SDAT). The optimum dose of bacosides with no adverse effect was selected by screening its dose dependant activity on ageing biomarker lipofuscin and SDAT biomarker neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the aged female Wistar rat brain. The selected therapeutic dose of bacosides (200 mg/kg) was orally administered for 3 months in middle aged and aged rats and further investigated for its protective action against age associated alterations in neurotransmission system, behavioral paradigms, hippocampal neuronal loss and oxidative stress markers. The results of the present study suggest that bacosides may act as a potential therapeutic intervention in forestalling the deleterious effects of ageing and preventing the age associated pathologies like SDAT. |
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