Alpha lipoic acid treatment in late middle age improves cognitive function: proteomic analysis of the protective mechanisms in the hippocampus.

Alpha lipoic acid (ALA), a powerful antioxidant, has the potential to relieve age-related cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative disease. Clinical randomized controlled studies have demonstrated the cognitive improvement effects of lipoic acid in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the present study, we examined the effects of ALA on cognitive function in ageing mice and its protective mechanisms. Eighteen-month-old male C57BL6/J mice received ALA or normal saline for 2 months. The Morris water maze test revealed improved cognitive function in animals that received ALA. Furthermore, tandem Mass Tags (TMT) based liquid chromotography with mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was established to identify the target proteins. The results showed that 10 proteins were changed significantly. Gene Ontology (GO) analysis indicated that the upregulated proteins were enriched in terminal bouton, synaptic transmission and lipid transporter activity while the down-regulated proteins were involved in nuclear transcription factor-κB binding, apoptosis and mitogen-activated protein kinase binding. Based on the GO results, two upregulated proteins oxysterol-binding protein-related protein 10 (OSBPL10) and oligophrenin 1 (OPHN1), and one downregulated protein, CDK5 regulatory subunit-associated protein 3 (CDK5rap3), were validated through Western blotting. The results were consistent with the proteomic results. Modulation of synaptic transmission, lipid transporter activity and neuroinflammation appears to be the mechanisms of ALA in the aged brain.

• Publication year

  2023

• Venue

  Neuroscience Letters

• Publication date

  2023-01-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.neulet.2023.137098PMID 36708754
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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