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Platycodon grandiflorum Root Protects against A?-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction and Pathology in Female Models of Alzheimer's Disease.

ABSTRACT: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by irreversible cognitive dysfunction. Amyloid beta (A?) peptide is an important pathological factor that triggers the progression of AD through accumulation and aggregation, which leads to AD-related pathologies that consequently affect cognitive functions. Interestingly, several studies have reported that Platycodon grandiflorum root extract (PGE), besides exhibiting other bioactive effects, displays neuroprotective, anti-neuroinflammatory, and cognitive-enhancing effects. However, to date, it is not clear whether PGE can affect AD-related cognitive dysfunction and pathogenesis. Therefore, to investigate whether PGE influences cognitive impairment in an animal model of AD, we conducted a Y-maze test using a 5XFAD mouse model. Oral administration of PGE for 3 weeks at a daily dose of 100 mg/kg significantly ameliorated cognitive impairment in 5XFAD mice. Moreover, to elucidate the neurohistological mechanisms underlying the PGE-mediated alleviative effect on cognitive dysfunction, we performed histological analysis of hippocampal formation in these mice. Histopathological analysis showed that PGE significantly alleviated AD-related pathologies such as A? accumulation, neurodegeneration, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation. In addition, we observed a neuroprotective and antioxidant effect of PGE in mouse hippocampal neurons. Our findings suggest that administration of PGE might act as one of the therapeutic agents for AD by decreasing A? related pathology and ameliorating A? induced cognitive impairment.

SUBMITTER: Nam Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7912782 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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<i>Platycodon grandiflorum</i> Root Protects against Aβ-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction and Pathology in Female Models of Alzheimer's Disease.

Nam Yunkwon Y Shin Soo Jung SJ Park Yong Ho YH Kim Min-Jeong MJ Jeon Seong Gak SG Lee Hyewon H Choi Yeji Y Kim Tae-Jin TJ Shin Seong Min SM Kim Jwa-Jin JJ Yoo Doo-Han DH Kim Hyung Don HD Kim Sujin S Moon Minho M

Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) 20210201 2

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease characterized by irreversible cognitive dysfunction. Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide is an important pathological factor that triggers the progression of AD through accumulation and aggregation, which leads to AD-related pathologies that consequently affect cognitive functions. Interestingly, several studies have reported that <i>Platycodon grandiflorum</i> root extract (PGE), besides exhibiting other bioactive effects, displays neuro ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundCampanulaceae species are known to have highly rearranged plastid genomes lacking the acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) subunit D gene (accD), and instead have a nuclear (nr)-accD. Plastid genome information has been thought to depend on studies concerning Trachelium caeruleum and genome announcements for Adenophora remotiflora, Campanula takesimana, and Hanabusaya asiatica. RNA editing information for plastid genes is currently unavailable for Campanulaceae. To understand plastid genome evolution in Campanulaceae, we have sequenced and characterized the chloroplast (cp) genome and nr-accD of Platycodon grandiflorum, a basal member of Campanulaceae.ResultsWe sequenced the 171,818 bp cp genome containing a 79,061 bp large single-copy (LSC) region, a 42,433 bp inverted repeat (IR) and a 7840 bp small single-copy (SSC) region, which represents the cp genome with the largest IR among species of Campanulaceae. The genome contains 110 genes and 18 introns, comprising 77 protein-coding genes, four RNA genes, 29 tRNA genes, 17 group II introns, and one group I intron. RNA editing of genes was detected in 18 sites of 14 protein-coding genes. Platycodon has an IR containing a 3' rps12 operon, which occurs in the middle of the LSC region in four other species of Campanulaceae (T. caeruleum, A. remotiflora, C. takesimana, and H. asiatica), but lacks accD, clpP, infA, and rpl23, as has been found in these four species. Platycodon nr-accD contains about 3.2 kb intron between nr-accD.e1 and nr-accD.e2 at the same insertion point as in other Campanulaceae. The phylogenies of the plastid genomes and accD show that Platycodon is basal in the Campanulaceae clade, indicating that IR disruption in Campanulaceae occurred after the loss of accD, clpP, infA, and rpl23 in the cp genome, which occurred during plastid evolution in Campanulaceae.ConclusionsThe plastid genome of P. grandiflorum lacks the rearrangement of the IR found in T. caeruleum, A. remotiflora, C. takesimana, and H. asiatica. The absence of accD, clpP, infA, and rpl23 in the plastid genome is a synapomorphic characteristic of Campanulaceae. The chloroplast genome phylogeny supports the hypothesis that chloroplast genomic arrangement occurred after accD nuclear transfer and loss of the four genes in the plastid of early Campanulaceae as a lineage of asterids.

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Platycodon grandiflorum Root Protects against A?-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction and Pathology in Female Models of Alzheimer's Disease.

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<i>Platycodon grandiflorum</i> Root Protects against Aβ-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction and Pathology in Female Models of Alzheimer's Disease.

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