Relationship between abnormal cholesterol synthesis and retarded learning in rats

Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 878-882

  Xu, Guorong ^b   Servatius, Richard J ^b   Shefer, Sarah ^b   Tint, G Stephen ^b   O'Brien, W Timothy ^b   Batta, Ashok K ^b   Salen, Gerald ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

7 DEHYDROCHOLESTEROL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; LEARNING DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMITH LEMLI OPITZ SYNDROME; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STEROL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031810073     PISSN: 00260495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0026-0495(98)90130-5     Document Type: Article

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