PMID- 29979503 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180926 LR - 20181004 IS - 0513-4870 (Print) IS - 0513-4870 (Linking) VI - 52 IP - 2 DP - 2017 Feb TI - [Antidepressant activity of flavonoid ethanol extract of Abelmoschus manihot corolla with BDNF up-regulation in the hippocampus]. PG - 222-8 AB - Abelmoschus manihot (L.) Medic., a folk herbal medicine in China, is a flowering plant belonging to Abelmoschus L. genus and Malvaceae family, which has been reported with an antidepressant activity. The study was designed to isolate flavonoids from Abelmoschus manihot corolla and explore the action mechanism of antidepressant activities. The flavonoids were isolated and purified by D101 macroporous resin column, polyamide column and Sephadex LH-20 sequentially and identified as myricetin-3-O-beta-D-glucoside (1), gossypetin-8-O-beta-D-glucuronide (2, G-8-G), gossypetin-3'-O-beta-D-glucoside (3), quercetin-3'-glucoside (4, Q-3-G), isoquercitrin (5, IQT), hyperoside (6, HY), myricetin (7), quercetin (8, QT). Compounds 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 (15, 30 and 60 mg.kg-1) were orally administered to mice and the reaction was observed in tail suspension test (TST) and forced swimming test (FST). Western blot analysis was used in determination of the protein expressions of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB) and phosphorylation eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (p-eEF2). The results revealed that only Q-3-G and G-8-G (15, 30, 60 mg .kg-1) significantly reduced the immobility time in FST and TST. Furthermore, Q-3-G and G-8-G remarkably increased the expression of BDNF and TrkB, and decreased the expression of p-eEF2. These results suggest that Q-3-G and G-8-G had an obvious antidepressant activity via up-regulation of BDNF expression. The new observation will provide a new direction in the development of antidepressant in the treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD). FAU - Cai, Hong-die AU - Cai HD FAU - Tao, Wei-wei AU - Tao WW FAU - Su, Shu-lan AU - Su SL FAU - Guo, Sheng AU - Guo S FAU - Zhu, Yue AU - Zhu Y FAU - Guo, Jian-ming AU - Guo JM FAU - Qian, Da-wei AU - Qian DW FAU - Cong, Xu-dong AU - Cong XD FAU - Tang, Ren-mao AU - Tang RM FAU - Duan, Jin-ao AU - Duan JA LA - chi PT - Journal Article PL - China TA - Yao Xue Xue Bao JT - Yao xue xue bao = Acta pharmaceutica Sinica JID - 21710340R RN - 0 (Antidepressive Agents) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Drugs, Chinese Herbal) RN - 0 (Flavonoids) RN - 0 (Plant Extracts) RN - 0YX10VRV6J (isoquercitrin) RN - 3K9958V90M (Ethanol) RN - 76XC01FTOJ (myricetin) RN - 8O1CR18L82 (hyperoside) RN - 9IKM0I5T1E (Quercetin) RN - SET4M23ZTM (gossypetin) SB - IM MH - Abelmoschus/*chemistry MH - Animals MH - Antidepressive Agents/*pharmacology MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*metabolism MH - China MH - Depressive Disorder, Major MH - Drugs, Chinese Herbal/pharmacology MH - Ethanol MH - Flavonoids/*pharmacology MH - Hindlimb Suspension MH - Hippocampus/*drug effects/metabolism MH - Mice MH - Plant Extracts/*pharmacology MH - Quercetin/analogs & derivatives MH - Swimming MH - Up-Regulation EDAT- 2017/02/01 00:00 MHDA- 2018/09/27 06:00 CRDT- 2018/07/07 06:00 PHST- 2018/07/07 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2017/02/01 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/09/27 06:00 [medline] PST - ppublish SO - Yao Xue Xue Bao. 2017 Feb;52(2):222-8.