Systemic administration of lentinan, a branched β-glucan, enhances long-term potentiation in the rat dentate gyrus in vivo

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 314, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 139-142

  Edagawa, Yoshikuni ^a,b   Smriga, Miro ^a   Nishiyama, Nobuyoshi ^a   Saito, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Glucan; In vivo recording; Intravenous injection; Lentinan; Long term potentiation; Oral application

Indexed keywords

BETA GLUCAN; LENTINAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG STRUCTURE; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; RAT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; BETA-GLUCANS; DENTATE GYRUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUCANS; LENTINAN; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; NEURONS; RATS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035900220     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02301-1     Document Type: Article

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