The effect of Jujuboside A on the evoked field potentials of Granule cells in dentate gyrus

Jujuboside A( JuA) is a main component of Jujubogenin extracted from the seeds of Ziziphus.The authors have not seen report on JuA‘s direct effect on the neruons of the central nervous system.This study aimed to assess the effect of JuA on paried-pulse responses of dentate gyrus granule cells in urethaneanasesthetized rats,used intracerebroventricular(i.c.v.) JuA to mimic in vitro tath conditions in vivo.Pariedpulse stimuli with 80ms interpulse interval were used to stimulate the perforant pathway.Evoked responses first responses,the slopoes of excitatory postsynaptic potential(EPSP1) and the amplitudes of population spike (PS1) decreased significantly after administration of JuA while the PS1 latencies increased significantly.In the second responses.the EPSP2 slops and PS2 latencies were changed similarly to those of the first ones.but PS2 amplitudes increased.The results showed that JuA may have some inhibitory effect on the granule cell excitability mediated by presynaptic mechanism but may have little effect on the excitability mediated by postsynaptic mechanism since the second evoked N-methyl-D-aspartic mediating paired-pulse facilitation is a postsynaptic mechanism.