Table 4. Acetylcholine (ACh) contents, acetylcholine esterase (AChE) activity, and monoamine oxidase-B (MAO-B) activity in brains of mice fed PSW and LPSW

Treatments1) ACh contents(μM/mg protein) AChE activity(μM/min/mg protein) MAO-B activity(μM resorufin/min/mg protein)
CON 15.88±1.361a 0.46±0.018b 6.34±0.275b
SCO 11.28±0.937c 0.60±0.021a 12.37±0.440a
THA10 14.72±0.493ab 0.47±0.023b 7.42±2.628b
PSW10 12.08±1.139bc 0.53±0.029ab 10.01±1.354ab
PSW40 13.21±1.015abc 0.52±0.046ab 9.35±0.793ab
LPSW100 14.16±0.823abc 0.45±0.031b 7.68±1.490b
LPSW400 15.35±0.151a 0.44±0.030b 7.18±1.286b
All values are mean±SE.
Means within same column with different letter differ significantly (p<0.05).
Control (CON); scopolamine (SCO, 1 mg/kg body weight (B.W.), intraperitoneally (i.p.); tetrahydroaminoacridine 10 [THA 10, tacrine; 10 mg/kg B.W. per oral (p.o.) with SCO (i.p.)]; pig skin water extracts [PSW 10, 10 mg/kg B.W. (p.o.) with SCO (i.p.)]; PSW 40 [40 mg/kg B.W. (p.o.) with SCO (i.p.)]; low molecular weight pig skin water extracts [LPSW 100, 100 mg/kg B.W. (p.o.) with SCO (i.p.)]; LPSW 400 [400 mg/kg B.W. (p.o.) with SCO (i.p.)].