Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based urinary metabolomics study on a rat model of simulated microgravity-induced depression.

The pathophysiological mechanism of depression is complex and its etiology remains unclear. Metabolomics can be used to monitor multiple metabolic pathways simultaneously, thereby investigating the mechanisms of depression onset and its regulation. Therefore, we studied the metabolic profile of urine samples from a rat model of depression for identifying potential metabolic biomarkers associated with depression.

Antidepressant effects of dammarane sapogenins in chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced depressive mice.

Depression is a common, dysthymic, and psychiatric disorder, resulting in enormous social and economic burden. Dammarane sapogenins (DS), an active fraction from oriental ginseng, has shown antidepressant-like effects in chronic restraint rats and sleep interruption-induced mice, and the present study aimed to further confirm the antidepressant effects of DS in a model of chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) and to explore the underlying mechanism. Oral administration of DS (20, 40, and 80 mg/kg) markedly improved depressant-like behaviors, increasing the sucrose intake in the sucrose preference test and reducing the latency in the novelty-suppressed feeding test, and decreasing the immobility time in both the tail suspension and forced swimming tests, compared with the CUMS mice.

[Antidepressant effects of the extract of Dendrobium nobile Lindl on chronic unpredictable mild stress-induced depressive mice].

To investigate whether the extract of Dendrobium nobile Lindl (DNL) has an antidepressant effect on chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS)-induced depressive mice, 72 BALB/c male mice were randomly divided into the control group, the CUMS model group, the extract of DNL groups (50, 100 and 200 mg/kg DNL, i.g.) and the paroxetine group (10 mg/kg, i.