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Volume 9, Issue 2
March 1995
Pages 110–113
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Part 9 in the series ‘Bioactive Phytosterol Conjugates’.
Abstract
The active principles of Withania somnifera (WS, 20–50 mg/kg, p.o.), consisting of equimolar amounts of
sitoindosides. VII–X and withaferin A, were investigated for putative nootropic activity in an experimentally
validated Alzheimer's disease (AD) model. The syndrome was induced by ibotenic acid (IA) lesioning of the
nucleus basalis magnocellularis (NBM) in rats. Cognitive deficits induced in NMBlesioned rats were
assessed by attenuation of a learned active avoidance task and a decrease in frontal cortical and
hippocampal acetylcholine (ACh) concentrations, choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity and muscarinic
cholinergic receptor (MCR) binding. IAinduced NBM lesioning in rats caused a marked cognitive deficit, as
evidenced by severe reduction of the learned task, and was accompanied by a significant decrease in
frontal cortex and hippocampal ACh levels, ChAT activity and MCR binding. WS (50 mg/kg) significantly
reversed both IAinduced cognitive deficit and the reduction in cholinergic markers after 2 weeks of
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treatment. The findings validate the medharasayan (promoter of learning and memory) effect of W.
somnifera, as has been reported in Ayurveda.
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