Abstract
Noise is a kind of sound that causes agitation and harms human health. Studies have shown that noise can lead to neuroinflammation, damage to synaptic plasticity and altered levels of neurotransmitters that may result in depression. The present study demonstrated that luteolin exerted antidepressant-like effects by improving neuroinflammation in a mouse model of noise-induced depression. Luteolin significantly alleviated noise-induced depression-like behavior. Notably, luteolin treatment not only remarkably ameliorated noise-induced inflammation in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, but also increased synapsin. Furthermore, luteolin treatment significantly increased the contents of serum 5-hydroxytryptamine and norepinephrine in noise-induced mice. In sum, luteolin exerts antidepressant effects indepression-like mice caused by noise, which can serve as a potential agent for the treatment of chronic noise-induced depression.
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This work was supported by the Technology Innovation Project for the Special Social Development of Public Health in Xuzhou City (Grant No.KC20168) and the Open Research Project of Research Center of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Brain Disease Bioinformation (Grant No. JSBL201802).
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Cheng, Y., Wang, X., Yu, Y. et al. Noise Induced Depression-Like Behavior, Neuroinflammation and Synaptic Plasticity Impairments: The Protective Effects of Luteolin. Neurochem Res 47, 3318–3330 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11064-022-03683-0
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