Antioxidant treatment with phenyl-α-tert-butyl nitrone (PBN) improves the cognitive performance and survival of aging rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 181-184

  Sack, Candice A ^a   Socci, Debra J ^a   Crandall, Blane M ^a   Arendash, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging rats; Alzheimer's disease; Antioxidants; Cognition; Free Radicals; Oxidative damage; Phenyl tert butyl nitrone (PBN); Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; BUTYLCRESOL; DEFEROXAMINE; FREE RADICAL; PHENYL ALPHA TERT BUTYL NITRONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029670564     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12417-4     Document Type: Article

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