Dietary docosahexaenoic acid increases cerebral acetylcholine levels and improves passive avoidance performance in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1123-1129

  Minami, Masaru ^a   Kimura, Shinichi ^a   Endo, Toru ^a   Hamaue, Naoya ^a   Hirafuji, Masahiko ^a   Togashi, Hiroko ^b   Matsumoto, Machiko ^b   Yoshioka, Mitsuhiro ^b   Saito, Hideya ^b   Watanabe, Shiro ^c   Kobayashi, Tetsuyuki ^c   Okuyama, Harumi ^c  

^a Teikyo University   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Meijo University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain ACh level; Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA); Learning ability; N 6 n 3 ratio; Passive avoidance; Stroke prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP); Task

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID;

ACETYLCHOLINE BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STROKE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PROTEINS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHOLINE; DIET; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, NONESTERIFIED; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY;

EID: 0031407013     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(97)00300-6     Document Type: Article

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