Depression- and Anxiety-like Behaviors in Cisplatin-treated Rats: Effects of Curcumin — ASN Events

Depression- and Anxiety-like Behaviors in Cisplatin-treated Rats: Effects of Curcumin (#875)

Hasan S Gergerlioglu 1 , Enver A Demir 2 , Mehmet Oz 3 , Muhammed I Alp 1 , Esra Nurullahoglu Atalik 4 , Fatma H Yerlikaya 5
  1. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Selcuk University, Konya, TURKEY
  2. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, TURKEY
  3. School of Health Sciences, Mevlana (Rumi) University, Konya, TURKEY
  4. Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, TURKEY
  5. Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, TURKEY

Cisplatin is a highly effective chemotherapeutic agent against solid tumor (1); however, side-effects and drug resistance are the limiting factors for its use. Curcumin, active ingredient of turmeric, has been previously shown to have additive effects in the cisplatin chemotherapy (2-4). In the present study, we investigated behavioral effects of the co-administration of cisplatin and curcumin. To this purpose, thirty-four adult male Wistar rats were recruited and divided into four groups as follows: Control (n=7; received 0.9 % saline/week, i.p. and corn oil/day, p.o.), Curcumin (n=7; received 0.9 % saline/week, i.p. and 300 mg/kg/day, p.o. curcumin), Cisplatin (n=10; received 5 mg/kg/week, i.p. cisplatin and corn oil/day, p.o.), and Curcumin plus Cisplatin (n=10; received 5 mg/kg/week, i.p. cisplatin and 300 mg/kg/day, p.o. curcumin). The treatments were continued for 5 weeks. The animals were subjected to the open field, elevated plus maze, and forced swim tests to evaluate depression- and anxiety-like behaviors. According to our results, we found that neither cisplatin nor curcumin administration resulted in a behavioral impairment. Also, the co-administration of cisplatin and curcumin was found to be safe and well-tolerated in terms of mood-related behaviors. Therefore, we deduced that curcumin does not interact with cisplatin to disturb the behavioral neurophysiology.

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