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Record W2886507753 · doi:10.3233/jin-180093

Improving effects of Echium amoenum aqueous extract on rat model of Alzheimer’s disease

2018· article· en· W2886507753 on OpenAlexaff
Leila Sadeghi, Vahid Yousefi Babadi, Farzeen Tanwir

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Integrative Neuroscience · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMedicinal Plants and Neuroprotection
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNeurodegenerationOxidative stressHippocampusMorris water navigation taskAcetylcholineAlzheimer's diseaseLesionNeuroscienceMedicinePharmacologyBiologyPathologyEndocrinologyDisease

Abstract

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Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder greatly accompanied by oxidative stress and acetylcholine reduction in synaptic cleft that leads to dementia. Previously approved there is correlation between nucleus basalis of Meynert (NBM) degeneration and loss of memory, learning ability and thought. The aim of this study was to investigate improving effects of Echium amoenum aqueous extract on memory deficient, pathophysiological and oxidative damages imposed by NBM lesion in rats as documented AD model. Results showed NBM destruction causes hash oxidative stress that possibly leads to neurodegeneration in hippocampus tissue. Orally administration of plant extract significantly reduced oxidative stress by reactive molecules scavenging that resulted to decrease lipid peroxidation also. Plant extract treatment inhibited acetylcholine esterase enzyme (more than 5 folds) in hippocampus tissue related to NBM lesioned rats. Histological studies approved NBM lesion causes harsh neurodegeneration in hippocampus tissue possibly by acetylcholine reduction that was compensated by plant extract protective effects. Interestingly improving effects of plant in molecular level causes improved spatial learning ability in Morris water maze test. By considering pathophysiological and molecular similarities between AD and NBM lesion model, E. amoenum could be used as a therapeutic adjuvant in patients suffering from Alzheimer or similar cognitive disorders.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.005

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.033
GPT teacher head0.307
Teacher spread0.274 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2018
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