Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33666843›Full record

ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2021

Anti-anxiety and antidepressant-like effects of astragaloside IV and saponins extracted from Astragalus spinosus against the bisphenol A-induced motor and cognitive impairments in a postnatal rat model of schizophrenia.

Heba-Tallah Abd Elrahim Abd Elkader, Heba Mohamed Abdou, Omaima Ahmed Khamiss, Amina Essawy Essawy

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. RoastedAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
    Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Review
  9. Anticancer Properties of Garlic and Ginger Extract in Colon Cancer Cell Line.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024
    Article
  10. Review
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Review
  15. Review
  16. Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Heba-Tallah Abd Elrahim Abd ElkaderZoology, Biological and Geological Sciences Department, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Heba Mohamed AbdouZoology Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt. dr.heba_abdou3000@yahoo.com.
Omaima Ahmed KhamissDepartment of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Institute of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Sadat City University, Sadat City, Egypt.
Amina Essawy EssawyZoology Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.
Alexandria University · EGUniversity of Sadat City · EG

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical endocrine disruptor to which humans are often exposed in daily life. Postnatal administration of BPA results in schizophrenia (SCZ)-like behaviours in rats. The present study was designed to elucidate whether treatment with astragaloside IV (ASIV) or saponins extracted from Astragalus spinosus improves the neurobehavioural and neurochemical disturbances induced by BPA. Fifty-two juvenile (PND20) male Sprague Dawley rats were divided into four groups. The rats in Group I were considered the control rats, while the rats in Group II were orally administered BPA (125 mg/kg) daily from PND20 to adult age (PND117). The rats in the third and fourth groups were administered BPA (125 mg/kg/day) supplemented with astragaloside IV (80 mg/kg/d) on PND20 or A. spinosus saponins (100 mg/kg/d) from PND50 to PND117, respectively. Administration of ASIV and saponins extracted from Astragalus spinosus reversed the anxiogenic and depressive-like behaviours and the social defects that were observed in the rats treated with BPA alone. Additionally, these compounds improved memory impairments, restored dopamine (DA), serotonin (5-HT), and monoamine oxidase (MAO-A) levels and normalized Tph

Indexed as

Cognitive DysfunctionSaponinsSchizophreniaTriterpenesAnimalsAntidepressive AgentsBenzhydryl CompoundsBisphenol A CompoundsMalePhenolsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyAntidepressive Agentsastragaloside ABenzhydryl Compoundsbisphenol ABisphenol A CompoundsPhenolsSaponinsTriterpenesAstragaloside IVAstragalus spinosus saponinsBisphenol AMale ratsSchizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID33666843
OpenAlexW3133579282

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.