The Effects of Inhaled Pimpinella peregrina Essential Oil on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Impairment, Anxiety, and Depression in Laboratory Rats
In: Molecular Neurobiology, Jg. 53 (2016-01-14), S. 6557-6567
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In the present study, we identified the effects of inhaled Pimpinella peregrina essential oil (1 and 3 %, for 21 continuous days) on scopolamine-induced memory impairment, anxiety, and depression in laboratory rats. Y-maze and radial arm-maze tests were used for assessing memory processes. Also, the anxiety and depressive responses were studied by means of the elevated plus-maze and forced swimming tests. The scopolamine alone-treated rats exhibited the following: decrease of the spontaneous alternation percentage in Y-maze test, increase of the number of working and reference memory errors in radial arm-maze test, along with decrease of the exploratory activity, the percentage of the time spent and the number of entries in the open arm within elevated plus-maze test and decrease of swimming time and increase of immobility time within forced swimming test. Inhalation of the P. peregrina essential oil significantly improved memory formation and exhibited anxiolytic- and antidepressant-like effects in scopolamine-treated rats. Our results suggest that the P. peregrina essential oil inhalation ameliorates scopolamine-induced memory impairment, anxiety, and depression. Moreover, studies on the P. peregrina essential oil may open a new therapeutic window for the prevention of neurological abnormalities closely related to Alzheimer's disease.
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The Effects of Inhaled Pimpinella peregrina Essential Oil on Scopolamine-Induced Memory Impairment, Anxiety, and Depression in Laboratory Rats
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Dogan, Gulden ; Aydin, Emel ; Hritcu, Lucian ; Hayta, Şükrü ; Bagci, Eyup |
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Zeitschrift: | Molecular Neurobiology, Jg. 53 (2016-01-14), S. 6557-6567 |
Veröffentlichung: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016 |
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ISSN: | 1559-1182 (print) ; 0893-7648 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1007/s12035-016-9693-9 |
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