Dietary CDP-choline supplementation prevents memory impairment caused by impoverished environmental conditions in rats

Learning and Memory

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-43

  Teather, Lisa A ^a,b   Wurtman, Richard J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITICOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CUES; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE CHOLINE; DIET; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEOSTRIATUM; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 13444274453     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.83905     Document Type: Article

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