Daily consumption of green tea catechin delays memory regression in aged mice

Biogerontology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 89-95

  Unno, Keiko ^a   Takabayashi, Fumiyo ^a   Yoshida, Hirotoshi ^a   Choba, Daisuke ^a   Fukutomi, Rie ^a   Kikunaga, Naomi ^a   Kishido, Takahiro ^a   Oku, Naoto ^a   Hoshino, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Brain; Green tea catechin; Learning; Memory; Oxidative damage; SAMP10; Senescence

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; CATECHIN; GREEN TEA EXTRACT; WATER;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD INTAKE; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE ACCELERATED MOUSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CATECHIN; CELL AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; DNA DAMAGE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MODELS, ANIMAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 33947698312     PISSN: 13895729     EISSN: 15736768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10522-006-9036-8     Document Type: Article

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