• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.254-261
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• 2005

The effects on memory and learning ability of the Korean herbal medicine, Xingyo-tang(XGT, 神交湯), which consists of Ginseng Radix(人蔘) 4 g, Liriopis Tuber(麥門冬) 40 g, Morindae Officinalis Radix(巴戟天) 40 g, Biotae Semen(柏子仁) 20 g, Dioscoreae Rhizoma(山藥) 40 g, Euryales Semen(?實) 20 g, Scrophulariae Radix(玄蔘) 40 g, Salviae Miltiorrhizae Radix(丹蔘) 12 g, Poria(茯神) 12 g, Cuscutae Semen(免絲子) 40 g, was investigated. The effects of XGT on learning and memory performance were examined in normal or memory impaired mice by using avoidance tests, Pentobarbital -induced sleep test, fear conditioning task, novel object recognition task, and water maze task. Hot water extract from XGT was used for the studies. Learning ability and memory are based on modifications of synaptic strength among neurons that are simultaneously active. Enhanced synaptic coincidence detection leads to better learning and memory. The XGT-treated (30 mg/100 g and 60 mg/100 g, p.o.) mice exhibit superior ability in learning and memorizing when performing various behavioral tasks. XGT did not affect the passive avoidance responses of normal mice in the step through and step down tests, the conditioned and unconditioned avoidance responses of normal mice in the shuttle box, lever press performance tests, and the ambulatory activity of normal mice in normal condition. In contrast, XGT produced ameliorating effects on the memory retrieval impairment induced by ethanol. XGT also improved the memory consolidation disability induced by electric convulsive shock (ECS). XGT extended the sleeping time induced by pentobarbital dose-dependently, suggesting its transquilizing or antianxiety action. These results suggest that XGT has an improving effect on the impaired learning through the effects on memory registration and retrieval.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.258-264
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• 2017

Background: Pulpal pain is one of the most common and severe orofacial pain conditions with considerable adverse effects on physiological processes including learning and memory. Regular exercise is known to be effective on cognitive function as well as pain processing in the central nervous system. Here, the possible effects of regular exercise on pulpal pain response as well as pain-induced changes in learning and memory efficiency in rats were investigated. Methods: Twenty-four male Wistar rats were randomly assigned to the control, capsaicin, exercise, and exercise plus capsaicin groups. Rats in exercise groups were forced to run on a treadmill with a moderate exercise protocol for 4 weeks. Capsaicin was used to induce dental pulp pain. Passive avoidance learning and memory performance was assessed by using a shuttle box apparatus. Results: According to the results, regular exercise could decrease the time course of capsaicin-induced pulpal pain (P < 0.001). Moreover, in capsaicin-treated rats, passive avoidance acquisition was impaired as compared to the control (P < 0.05) and exercise (P < 0.001) groups. Additionally, regular exercise before capsaicin injection could attenuate capsaicin-induced memory impairments (P < 0.05). Conclusions: Taken together, the present data showed that regular exercise has inhibitory effects on capsaicin-induced pulpal pain as well as pain-induced cognitive dysfunction in rats.

• 생약학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.23-28
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• 1971

This study was planned to see whether the Panax Ginseng root has any influence upon the emotionality in rats exposed to a novel open-field and induced by a grid shock. Sixty four male albino rats whose body weight ranged from 130 to 180 gm were used. They were divided into four groups, i.e., placebo control group, 5mg/kg Ginseng ext. group, 10mg/kg Ginseng ext. group, and 20mg/kg Ginseng ext. group. Sixteen rats were subjected in each group. Open-field activity was measured in a $2.20m\;{\times}\;2.20m$ open-field that was divided into 15cm squares. Four novel objects and food pellets were put with an equal distance in the open-field. Locomotion was recorded by entering the number of squares traversed for 4 min. and behaviors which were shown at the 10-sec. period were checked by a modified Jarrad and Bunnel's observation procedure. Sensitivity to the grid shock was measured in a compartment of shuttle box. 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 volt ac. 2 sec., electric shock were delivered in each subject by the grid to animal's feet. Flinch, vocalization and jumping responses were rated in each shock level. The results obtained were as follows: 1.) 5mg/kg and 10mg/kg Ginseng ext. groups were tended to increase the ambulation and exploration compared with placebo control. 2.) All Ginseng extract groups were defecated significantly less often than placebo control in the open-field and shock situation. 3.) Thresholds to the electric shock were tended to elevate in all Ginseng groups. 4.) These results suggest that Ginseng extract has a stimulant action in open-field and a tranqulizing action in feared situation.

• 대한약리학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.115-128
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• 1992

Two-way shuttle box에서 active conditioned response (ACR)을 10일간 매일 30회 부하하여 10회 이상 반응한 웅성 Wistar 백서를 이용하여, 경련성 전기충격 (ECS: 50 mA, 100 Hz, 1.5 sec)에 의한 ACR-유지의 변동에 미치는 CDP-choline (250 mg/kg/day/CC), aminoguanidine (100 mg/kg/day: AG), ${\alpha}-difluoromethylornithine$ (250 mg/kg/day, DO), 및 spermine (10/mg/kg/day: SM) 각각의 10일간 복강내-주사의 영향을 검토하였다. 그 결과, 10일간 획득된 ACR은 그 다음 10일후에 더욱 증가되었으며, 이는 일일 간격의 5회 ECS (5-ECS) 또는 ACR-유지검사 3시간전 일회 ECS (ECS-3h)로 현저히 억제되나, ACR-유지검사 24시간전의 일회 ECS (ECS-24h)로는 별 영향을 받지 않았다. 아울러, ACR의 자연증가현상은 CC와 SM에 의하여 현저히 저하되었으나 AG와 DFMO에 의하여는 영향을 받지 않았다. 5-ECS에 의한 ACR-유지저해는 AG, SM, 및 CC에 의하여 유의하게 되었으며 DFMO에 의하여는 영향을 받지 않았다. ECS-3h 후의 ACR-유지저해는 SM와 AG에 의하여 다소 더 악화되었고 CC와 DFMO에 의하여는 별 영향을 받지 않았는데, 정상 백서에 비하여 큰 차를 보이지 않은 ECS-24h 후의 ACR은 CC, SM, DO, 및 AG에 의하여도 영향을 받지 않았다. 한편, ECS-3h와 ECS-24는 백서-대뇌 시상하부(HT), 해마(HC), 및 내후피질(EC)의 acetylcholine (ACh) 함량에 별 영향을 미치지 않았으나, $5{\times}ECS$는 다소 증가시켰으며 특히 EC의 ACh증가는 유의하였다. 아울러 CC과 SM도 대뇌-ACh 함량을 유의하게 증가시켰으나, DO와 AG는 별 영향을 미치지 않았다. ECS-3h와 ECS-24h는 대뇌 HT, HC, 및 EC의 polyamine 함량에 영향을 미치지 않았으나, $5{\times}ECS$는 HT와 HC의 putrescine (Pt) 함량과 HC의 spermine (Sm) 함량을 각각 유의하게 감소시켰다. CC는 PT함량에 영향을 미치지 않았으나 spermidine (Sd)와 Sm 함량은 현저히 증가시켰다. 그러나 이같은 CC의 작용을 ECS-3 시간후와 24시간후에는 전혀 볼 수 없었을 뿐 아니라, ECS-3 시간후의 HC의 Sd 함량은 정상치보다 유의한 감소로 역전되었다. 또한 CC는 $5{\times}ECS$에 의한 Pt와 Sm 함량-감소를 유의하게 억제하였다. SM은 전 부위의 Sd 함량과 EC의 Sm 함량을 유의하게 증가시켰고, 이같은 증가가 ECS-3 시간후에 더욱 상승되었으며, 이때 HC와 EC의 Pt함량도 유의하게 증가되었다. 또한 SM은 $5{\times}ECS$에 의해 Pt와 Sm 함량-감소를 유의하게 억제하였다. 그러나 DO는 HC의 Sd와 모든 부위의 Sm 함량을 유의하게 감소시켰고 또한 Pt와 Sm에 대한 $5{\times}ECS$의 감소작용을 더 상승시켰다. AG는 모든 부위의 Pt 함량을 현저히 증가시켰을 뿐 아니라 HT의 Sd와 모든 부위의 Sm도 유의하게 증가시켰고, $5{\times}ECS$에 의한 Pt와 Sm 함량-감소를 유의하게 억제하였다. 이상의 성적은 $5{\times}ECS$로 나타나는 ACR의 유지-저해에 대한 aminoguanidine의 보호작용의 일부가 polyamine 대사에 대한 그의 diamine oxidase 억제작용에 기인됨을 시사하는 것으로 사료된다.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.62-69
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• 2003

Corticotropin-releasing factor(CRF) and neuropeptide Y(NPY) are known to play important roles in mediating stress responses and stress-related behavior. To elucidate the role of neuropeptides in response to the condition that had paired with traumatic event, we observed the changes of CRF and NPY by immunohistochemistry using a conditioned footshock paradigm. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were placed in a shuttle box and exposed to 20 pairings of a tone(< 70dB, 5sec) followed by a footshock(FS, 0.8mA, 1sec) over 60min. A second group was exposed to the tone-footshock pairings, returned to the homecage for 2days, and then reexposed to the test chamber and 20tones alone for 60min, prior to sacrifice. Control groups were : a) sacrificed without exposure to FS ; b) exposed to the tone-footshock pairings and then sacrificed two days later ; or c) exposed to the chamber and tones alone, returned to the homecage for 2days and then reexposed to the chamber and 20tones over 60min prior to sacrifice. CRF was increased in animals exposed to FS or the aversive condition(context and tone) that had paired to FS in bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) compared to the control. NPY was increased by FS in amygdala and PVN, but the condition previously associated with FS results in slight increase only in amygdala area. These results suggest that the BNST appears to be the mostly involved neural circuit in response to explicit cues previously paired with footshock. Moreover, this study raise the possibility that increased CRF peptide in the BNST in response to re-exposure to the aversive condition may underlie, in part, the experience of conditioned fear-related anxiety behavior.