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Effect Of Quercetin As Therapeutic And Protective Agent In Aluminum Chloride-Induced Alzheimer's Disease Rats

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Biochemistry

Abstract

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease clinically characterized by progressive cognitive impairment. This work aimed to investigate the role of quercetin (Q) in the treatment and protection of AlCl3-induced AD in rats through exploring the molecular mechanisms underlying its neuroprotective and therapeutic properties. In this study, male Wistar rats were allocated to two experiments: experiment I (therapeutic effect of quercetin) in which the rats were divided into: normal control group (C-Saline) which was induced with saline for 56 days, C-Q50 group, which was administered orally with Q (50 mg/kg) for 28 days after induction saline for 28 days, AD (AlCl3-Saline) group received AlCl3 (50 mg/kg) intraperitoneally for 28 days followed by saline for 28 days, and the AlCl3-Q50 group received Q (50 mg/kg) orally for 28 days after induction with AlCl3 for 28 days. In experiment II rats were divided into: normal control (NC) group, Q50 (50 mg/ kg) group, AlCl3 (AD) group, and AlCl3 + Q50 group which was co-administrated with AlCl3 + Q50 for 56 successive days. Dopamine (DA) and acetylcholinesterase) AChE (levels were estimated for all rat groups. The results showed that post-treatment of the AD-induced rats with Q50 as well as co-administration of AlCl3with Q50, significantly reduced the AChE level in serum, significantly increased the DA level, and significantly increased the body weight change compared to the AlCl3group, but did not show any significant change in the brain weight. We concluded that quercetin significantly improved the cholinergic and dopaminergic dysfunctions by lowering the Acetylcholine esterase level and restoring the dopamine level

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2021.99971.4647

Keywords

Alzheimer disease, Quercetin, Acetyl choline esterase, Dopamine, AlCl3, body weight change

Authors

First Name

Hala

Last Name

Elreedy

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

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alihalla351@gmail.com

City

Cairo

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First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Elfiky

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-

Affiliation

Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, Environmental Research Division, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

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asmaaelfiky@yahoo.com

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First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Mahmoud

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-

Affiliation

Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

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asmaa_ainshams@yahoo.com

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First Name

Khadiga

Last Name

Salaheldin Ebrahim

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National Research Centre, Egypt

Email

khadigasalah@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ghazy

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-

Affiliation

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt Biotechnology program, Basic and applied science institute. Egypt-Japan University of science and Technology, New Borg El-Arab City, Alexandria, Egypt

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hady72@gmail.com

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Volume

65

Article Issue

4

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29683

Issue Date

2022-04-01

Receive Date

2021-10-07

Publish Date

2022-04-01

Page Start

633

Page End

641

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_200948.html

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297

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Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Effect Of Quercetin As Therapeutic And Protective Agent In Aluminum Chloride-Induced Alzheimer's Disease Rats

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22 Jan 2023