Brucine N-oxide reduces ethanol intake and preference in alcohol-preferring Fawn-Hooded rats

作     者：LIANG Jian-hui WEI Shou-peng LI Yu-ling GONG Qi WANG Yan-ting LIANG Hui LIU Qing ZHANG Han-ting CHEN Feng Andrew J LOWRENCE 

作者机构：Department of Molecular and Cellular PharmacologySchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of PharmacologySchool of Basic Medicine SciencesPeking University Institute of PsycopharmacologyCentral Institute of Mental HealthUniversity of Heidelberg Departments of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry and Physiology& PharmacologyWest Virginia University Health Sciences Center The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental HealthUniversity of Melbourne 

出 版 物：《中国药理学与毒理学杂志》 (Chinese Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology)

年 卷 期：2017年第31卷第5期

页      面：479-480页

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学科分类：1006[医学-中西医结合] 10[医学] 100602[医学-中西医结合临床] 

主　　题：brucine N-oxide ethanol 

摘      要：OBJECTIVE The alcoholism-related social problems have burdened the public health heavily.A better therapy for alcohol dependence as a chronic brain disease is highly required and interests the scientists worldwide. Our group has focused on screening the right drug with low toxicity and a sound curative effect from traditional Chinese medicine. METHODS Alcohol-preferring Fawn-Hooded(FH/Wjd) rat was used as an animal model of alcoholism to evaluate the effects of brucine N-oxide(BNO),an alkoloid naturally existing in the seeds of Strychnos nux-vomica L,on the alcohol-drinking behaviors.Furthermore,its adverse action and toxicity were investigated. RESULTS Treatment with BNO at the doses of 30,50 and 70 mg · kg^(-1)reduced the voluntary alcohol consumption and preference dosedependently and selectively without altering their water intake,total fluid intake,food consumption,body weight as well as sucrose preference. Remarkably,70 mg·kg^(-1)of BNO did suppress the deprivationinduced elevation of alcohol ingestion. Moreover,BNO used at the same doses as above had no influence on locomotion in an open field test and could not result in the place preference effect. CONCLUSION Taken together,BNO is of some significant pharmacological profiles to inhibit symptoms of alcohol dependence with high safety,and thence may be a potential pharmacotherapy.