LW-AFC,a new traditional Chinese medicine formula,shows promising therapeutic effects on Alzheimer disease

作     者：ZHOU Wen-xia WANG Jian-hui CHENG Bing HUANG Yan CHENG Xiao-rui ZHANG Yong-xiang 

作者机构：Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and ToxicologyState Key Laboratory of Toxicology and Medical Countermeasures 

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：460-460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：Alzheimer disease Liuwei Dihuang decoction hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis 

摘      要：Alzheimer disease(AD) is the leading cause of dementia that affects millions of elderly people worldwide.The currently available therapies have limited efficacy. Liuwei Dihuang decoction(LW),a classical traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) formula,has long been used to treat various diseases,including dementia. A large number of pharmacological studies have showed that LW has beneficial effects on AD. LW-AFC is a new formula consisted of the main active components prepared fromLW.In this study,we found that administration of LW-AFC significantly improved behavioral performances in spontaneous locomotor activity,object recognition memory,spatial learning and memory,passive and active avoidance impairment in some AD mouse models,such as SAMP8 and APP/PS1 transgenic mice. Meanwhile,the impairments of long-term potentiation(LTP) were significantly ameliorated by LW-AFC administration in SAMP8 mice,as well as in corticosterone-induced LTP inhibition mice model.These effects were companied by alleviating of the neuron loss in the hippocampus,suppressing of A-beta deposition in the brain,and reducing of the concentration of Abeta42 in the hippocampus and plasma of APP/PS1 mice. The restoring and correcting of imbalance of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal(HPA) and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal(HPG) axis,the disorder of lymphocyte subsets,the abnormality of production of cytokine were also observed in LW-AFC treated SAMP8 and APP/PS1 mice.These findings indicated that LW-AFC ameliorated the behavioral and pathological deterioration of AD mice via the restoration of the NIM network in a holistic way,suggesting that LW-AFC might bea promising therapy for AD.