Research Article

Involvement of Anti-Inflammatory and Stress Oxidative Markers in the Antidepressant-like Activity of Aloysia citriodora and Verbascoside on Mice with Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide- (LPS-) Induced Depression

Table 1

Effect of HEAc and VBS on the levels of GSH and SOD activity in the hippocampus of mice evaluated in the posttreatment experiment of antidepressant-like activity.

TreatmentsGSHSOD

N24.18 ± 3.2822.24 ± 2.08
Veh11.52 ± 1.2918.10 ± 1.57
Flu13.98 ± 0.6425.30 ± 1.25
HEAc 3021.34 ± 3.21#20.09 ± 1.63
HEAc 30036.06 ± 1.35###19.32 ± 1.93
VBS13.12 ± 1.0020.24 ± 1.45

Note. N, naive; Veh, (vehicle, water); Flu, fluoxetine (30 mg/kg) hydroalcoholic extract of Aloysia citriodora (HEAc, 30 or 300 mg/kg); VBS, verbascoside (30 mg/kg). ANOVA (one way) (n = 8), post hoc Tuckey. and compared to the N group. # and ### compared to the Veh group. Reduced glutathione (GSH; μg/mg tissue); SOD (superoxide dismutase, U/mg protein).