Dietary choline supplementation in pregnant rats increases hippocampal phospholipase D activity of the offspring

FASEB Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1653-1659

  Holler, Thomas ^a   Cermak, Jennifer Marie ^a   Blusztajn, Jan Krzysztof ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

development; hippocampus; memory; metabotropic glutamate receptors; phosphatidylcholine

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE D;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030466002     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.10.14.9002559     Document Type: Article

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