Huperzine A attenuates cognitive deficits and hippocampal neuronal damage after transient global ischemia in gerbils

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 313, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 137-140

  Zhou, Jin ^a   Zhang, Hai Yan ^a   Tang, Xi Can ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

Author keywords

Cholinesterase inhibitor; Gerbil; Global ischemia; Hippocampus; Huperzine A; Morris water maze

Indexed keywords

HUPERZINE A;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERBIL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GERBILLINAE; HIPPOCAMPUS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SESQUITERPENES;

EID: 0035834265     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02265-0     Document Type: Article

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