Possible antioxidant mechanism in melatonin reversal of aging and chronic ethanol-induced amnesia in plus-maze and passive avoidance memory tasks

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 595-602

  Raghavendra, Vasudeva ^a   Kulkarni, Shrinivas K ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aging; Antioxidant; Ethanol intoxication; Free radicals; Glutathione; Lipid peroxidation; Melatonin; Memory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIOXIDANT; GLUTATHIONE; MELATONIN;

AGING; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; GLUTATHIONE; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; MAZE LEARNING; MELATONIN; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROSENCEPHALON;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0035868536     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0891-5849(00)00447-0     Document Type: Article

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