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ArticleEnvironmental science and pollution research international2021

Ameliorative role of rolipram, PDE-4 inhibitor, against sodium arsenite-induced vascular dementia in rats.

Divjot Virk, Amit Kumar, Amteshwar Singh Jaggi, Nirmal Singh

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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 8 papers.

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Divjot VirkDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, CNS Research Lab., Pharmacology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, 147002, India.
Amit KumarChitkara College of Pharmacy, Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab, India. amit2050@yahoo.co.in.
Amteshwar Singh JaggiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, CNS Research Lab., Pharmacology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, 147002, India.
Nirmal SinghDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, CNS Research Lab., Pharmacology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, 147002, India. nirmal_puru@rediffmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6143-5284
Punjabi University · INChitkara University · IN

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Arsenic exposure to the population leads to serious health problems like neurotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, and cardiovascular abnormality. In the present study, the work has been commenced to discover the prospect of rolipram a phosphodiestrase-4 (PDE-4) inhibitor against sodium arsenite (SA)-induced vascular endothelial dysfunction (EnDF) leading to dementia in rats. Wistar rats were treated with SA (5 mg/kg body weight/day orally) for 44 days for induction of vascular EnDF and dementia. Learning and memory were evaluated using Morris water maze (MWM) test. Vascular EnDF was evaluated using aortic ring preparation. Various biochemical parameters were also evaluated like brain oxidative stress (viz. reduced glutathione and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances level), serum nitrite/nitrate activity, acetylcholinesterase activity, and inflammatory markers (viz. neutrophil infiltration in brain and myeloperoxidase). SA-treated rats showed poor performance in water maze trials indicating attenuated memory and ability to learn with significant rise (p < 0.05) in brain acetylcholinesterase activity, brain oxidative stress, neutrophil count, and significant decrease (p < 0.05) in serum nitrite/nitrate levels and vascular endothelial functions. Rolipram (PDE-4 inhibitor) treatment (0.03 mg/kg and 0.06 mg/kg body weight, intraperitoneally daily for 14 days) significantly improved memory and learning abilities, and restored various biochemical parameters and EnDF. It is concluded that PDE-4 modulator may be considered the prospective target for the treatment of SA-induced vascular EnDF and related dementia.

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Dementia, VascularPhosphodiesterase 4 InhibitorsAcetylcholinesteraseAnimalsArsenitesBrainMaze LearningOxidative StressProspective StudiesRatsRats, WistarRolipramSodium CompoundsAcetylcholinesteraseArsenitesPhosphodiesterase 4 InhibitorsRolipramsodium arseniteSodium CompoundsEndothelial dysfunctionMemoryPhosphodiesteraseRolipramSodium arseniteVascular dementia

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