Authors: KyungSik Song WooSik Jeong Mira Jun
Publish Date: 2012/06/30
Volume: 21, Issue: 3, Pages: 845-851
Abstract
One of predominant hallmarks in Alzheimer’s disease AD is extracellular senile plaques containing βamyloid peptide Aβ Aβ is known to be directly responsible for the free radical production and lipid peroxidation leading to apoptosis and cellular death In this study we investigated the possible protective effect of kaempferol 3O6″acetylβglucopyranoside KAG isolated from butterbur Petasites japonicus leaves against Aβinduced neurotoxicity Exposure of mouse neuroblastoma B103 cells to Aβ25–35 at the concentration of 50 μM significantly reduced cellular viability and increased both oxidative stress and apoptotic rate However pretreatment of B103 cell with isolated KAG at 10 μM significantly inhibited Aβinduced apoptotic cellular damage and reactive oxygen species ROS generation Pretreatment of KAG also completely inhibited caspase3 activity to the basal level at the concentration of 10 mM This study therefore demonstrated that Aβ induced cellular death might be prevented by KAG from butterbur leaves by the suppression of ROS and the subsequent recovery of apoptotic cell death
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