Visual performance in monosodium glutamate-treated rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 301-307

  Praputpittaya, Chucheep ^a   Wililak, Anutape ^a  

^a Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Monosodium glutamate; MSG; Rat; Visual function; Visual performance

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRIGHTNESS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STUDENT T TEST; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MODELS, ANIMAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242300139     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150310001595591     Document Type: Article

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