Abstract
Dietary habits have a great impact on one’s health, especially in cognitive decline. Tomato and lemon contain diverse bioactive compounds and possess various effects, including the enhancement of cognitive function. We observed the protective effect of tomato, lemon extract and the mixture of them on H2O2-induced cytotoxicity of PC12 cells. To measure the in vivo effect in a murine model, each extract was orally administered to forty 1-year-old mice for 6 weeks, and a novel object recognition (NOR) test was performed to observe cognitive function, and hippocampal neurogenesis was observed through a doublecortin (DCX) stain. PC12 cell death by oxidative stress was reduced by pretreating with each extract, and a synergistic reduction was observed in the mixture. Newly generated DCX-positive neurons were synergistically increased in the hippocampus by the mixture. NOR test showed a tendency to significantly improve age-related cognitive dysfunction by consuming the mixture of tomato and lemon. In conclusion, tomato and lemon extracts can reduce cellular oxidative stress and increase NOR, likely due to enhanced neurogenesis, while the mixture of the two showed synergistic anti-oxidative effects and hippocampal neurogenesis.
Subject
Plant Science,Health Professions (miscellaneous),Health (social science),Microbiology,Food Science
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