The invention belongs to the technical field of medicines, and provides application of
urolithin A acetate and a derivative thereof in preparation of a
medicine for treating depression and the prepared
antidepressant medicine. The application dosage is 0.01-30 mg / kg of
urolithin A acetate or a derivative thereof, and the anti-depression effect can be generated within 60 minutes after administration. After the
medicine is administrated for 5 days, the obvious anti-depression effect is generated in the low dosage and the
high dosage. A
research result shows that in a
mammal mouse
tail suspension experiment, the
urolithin A acetate or the derivative thereof has a rapid anti-depression effect and is more effective than an anti-depression
drug imipramine. According to the method, a
forced swimming experiment and a mouse
tail suspension experiment are adopted as
drug screening experiments, and meanwhile, an
open field test is carried out on the mouse, so that the autonomous activity of the mouse is detected, and interference of central excitants is avoided. The anti-depression
drug has the advantages of being remarkable in anti-depression effect, quick in effect taking, small in dosage, small in
side effect and the like, and is expected to become a new anti-depression drug which is quick, efficient and novel in mechanism.