Assessment of nutritional interventions for modification of age-associated cognitive decline using a canine model of human aging

Age

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-37

  Araujo, Joseph A ^a   Studzinski, Christa M ^a   Head, Elizabeth ^b   Cotman, Carl W ^b   Milgram, Norton W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Antioxidants; Brain pathology; Canine model; Cognitive dysfunction; Docosahexaenoic acid; Mitochondrial cofactors; Nutritional interventions; Phospholipids

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CARNITINE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PHOSPHATIDIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PHOSPHOLIPID; PLASMALOGEN; SPHINGOMYELIN; THIOCTIC ACID;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MITOCHONDRION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOG; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; METABOLIC RATE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; REVIEW; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33745646986     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-005-4001-z     Document Type: Review

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