Dietary n-3 fatty acid deficiency decreases nerve growth factor content in rat hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-102

  Ikemoto, Atsushi ^a   Nitta, Atsumi ^b   Furukawa, Shoei ^b   Ohishi, Masayo ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Fujii, Yoichi ^a   Okuyama, Harumi ^a  

^a Meijo University   (Japan)

^b GIFU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Linolenic acid; Arachidonic acid; Docosahexaenoic acid; Eicosapentaenoic acid; Hippocampus; Linoleic acid; Nerve growth factor

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; SAFFLOWER OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT;

ANIMALS; DIETARY FATS; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0034640152     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01035-1     Document Type: Article

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