Influence of a dietary n-3 fatty acid deficiency on the cerebral catecholamine contents, EEG and learning ability in rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 193-203

  Takeuchi, Takashi ^a   Fukumoto, Yutaka ^a   Harada, Etsumori ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Linolenic acid deficiency; Active avoidance test; Brain development; Catecholamine contents; Docosahexaenoic acid; Electroencephalogram; Maternal diet; Reversibility

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; CATECHOLAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; CATECHOLAMINE SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID DEFICIENCY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BRAIN LEVEL; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WEANING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CATECHOLAMINES; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; LEARNING; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037061535     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00392-8     Document Type: Article

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