PMID- 23850356 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20140318 LR - 20171116 IS - 1872-7549 (Electronic) IS - 0166-4328 (Linking) VI - 253 DP - 2013 Sep 15 TI - Neotrofin reverses the effects of chronic unpredictable mild stress on behavior via regulating BDNF, PSD-95 and synaptophysin expression in rat. PG - 48-53 LID - S0166-4328(13)00413-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.07.014 [doi] AB - Depression is one of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders and has been associated with a wide range of neuronal structural changes in brain regions. Neotrofin, a neurotrophin agonist, has been demonstrated to exhibit neuroprotection in various in vivo and in vitro studies. The present study aimed to investigate the neuroprotective and ameliorating effects of neotrofin treatment in a rat model of chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) induced depression. The results showed that CUMS was effective in producing depression-like behavior in rats as indicated by decreased responses in the sucrose preference test, and locomotor activity in the open-field test. Moreover, the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), PSD-95 and synaptophysin were decreased in the amygdala of CUMS rats. Chronic administration of neotrofin (60mg/kg, i.p., 5 weeks) significantly ameliorated all these behavioral and biochemical alterations associated with CUMS induced depression, which demonstrated that the expression changes of BDNF, PSD-95 and synaptophysin were correlated with the depression-like behaviors of CUMS rats. Taken together, the results of the present study highlight that neotrofin exhibits neuroprotective and antidepressant-like effects against CUMS induced depression, and suggest a possible mechanism for this protection via changes in synaptic plasticity within the amygdala. These findings reveal the therapeutic potential of neotrofin for use in clinical trials in the treatment of neuronal deterioration in depression. CI - Copyright (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Luo, Junxia AU - Luo J AD - Department of Physiology, Shandong University, School of Medicine, Wenhuaxilu Road, Jinan, Shandong Province 250012, PR China. FAU - Zhang, Lin AU - Zhang L FAU - Ning, Nannan AU - Ning N FAU - Jiang, Hong AU - Jiang H FAU - Yu, Shu Yan AU - Yu SY LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20130711 PL - Netherlands TA - Behav Brain Res JT - Behavioural brain research JID - 8004872 RN - 0 (Aminobenzoates) RN - 0 (Antidepressive Agents) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Disks Large Homolog 4 Protein) RN - 0 (Dlg4 protein, rat) RN - 0 (Hypoxanthines) RN - 0 (Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins) RN - 0 (Membrane Proteins) RN - 0 (Neuroprotective Agents) RN - 0 (Synaptophysin) RN - 138117-50-7 (4-((3-(1,6-dihyro-6-oxo-9H-purin-9-yl)-1-oxopropyl)amino)benzoic acid) RN - 57-50-1 (Sucrose) SB - IM MH - Aminobenzoates/*pharmacology MH - Amygdala/drug effects/metabolism MH - Animals MH - *Antidepressive Agents MH - Behavior, Animal/*drug effects MH - Blotting, Western MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*biosynthesis MH - Chronic Disease MH - Data Interpretation, Statistical MH - Disks Large Homolog 4 Protein MH - Food Preferences/drug effects MH - Hypoxanthines/*pharmacology MH - Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins/*biosynthesis MH - Male MH - Membrane Proteins/*biosynthesis MH - Motor Activity/drug effects MH - Neuronal Plasticity/drug effects MH - *Neuroprotective Agents MH - Rats MH - Rats, Wistar MH - Stress, Psychological/*psychology MH - Sucrose MH - Synaptophysin/*biosynthesis OTO - NOTNLM OT - AD OT - ANOVA OT - Alzheimer's disease OT - Amygdala OT - BDNF OT - CUMS OT - Chronic unpredictable mild stress OT - Depression OT - NGF OT - NT-3 OT - NT-4 OT - Neotrofin OT - PSD-95 OT - analysis of variance OT - brain derived neurotrophic factor OT - chronic unpredictable mild stress OT - nerve growth factor OT - neurotrophin-3 OT - neurotrophin-4 OT - postsynaptic density protein 95 EDAT- 2013/07/16 06:00 MHDA- 2014/03/19 06:00 CRDT- 2013/07/16 06:00 PHST- 2013/06/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/07/04 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/07/06 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/07/16 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/07/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/03/19 06:00 [medline] AID - S0166-4328(13)00413-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.07.014 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Behav Brain Res. 2013 Sep 15;253:48-53. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.07.014. Epub 2013 Jul 11.