Influences of reduced masticatory sensory input from soft-diet feeding upon spatial memory/learning ability in mice

Biomedical Research

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-7

  Tsutsui, Keisuke ^a   Kaku, Masato ^a   Motokawa, Masahide ^a   Tohma, Yuiko ^a   Kawata, Toshitsugu ^a   Fujita, Tadashi ^a   Kohno, Shinya ^a   Ohtani, Junji ^a   Tenjoh, Kaoru ^a   Nakano, Mao ^a   Kadama, Hiroko ^a   Tanne, Kazuo ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MASTICATION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MASTICATION; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; TOUCH;

MUS;

EID: 33947695296     PISSN: 03886107     EISSN: 1880313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2220/biomedres.28.1     Document Type: Article

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