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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-10-5
pubmed:abstractText
Effects of yokukansan (TJ-54) on memory disturbance and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) were investigated in thiamine-deficient (TD) rats which were produced by feeding a TD diet for 37 d. Daily oral administration of TJ-54 (0.5, 1.0 g/kg) ameliorated the memory disturbance, anxiety-like behavior, the increase in aggressive behaviors, the decrease in social behaviors, and several neurological symptoms including opisthotonus observed in TD rats, in a dose-dependent manner. In addition, histopathological examinations showed that TJ-54 inhibited the degeneration of neuronal and astroglial cells in the brain stem, hippocampus and cortex in TD rats. Microdialysis experiments showed that TJ-54 inhibited extracellular glutamate rise in the ventral posterior medial thalamus in TD rats. These results suggest that TJ-54 possesses the preventive or progress inhibitive effect against the development of memory disturbance and BPSD-like behaviors induced by the degeneration of neuronal and astroglial cells resulting from TD. TJ-54 may inhibit glutamate-mediated excitotoxicity as one of mechanisms.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
1347-5215
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1701-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Aggression, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Angiosperms, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Anxiety, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Astrocytes, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Behavior, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Brain, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Dementia, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Disease Models, Animal, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Disease Progression, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Drugs, Chinese Herbal, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Fungi, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Glutamic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Male, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Medicine, East Asian Traditional, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Medicine, Kampo, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Memory Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Phytotherapy, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Rats, Wistar, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Social Behavior, pubmed-meshheading:19801831-Thiamine Deficiency
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Effects of yokukansan, a traditional Japanese medicine, on memory disturbance and behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia in thiamine-deficient rats.
pubmed:affiliation
Tsumura Research Laboratories, Tsumura & Co., Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki 300-1192, Japan. ikarashi_yasushi@mail.tsumura.co.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article