Postnatal dietary supplementation with either gangliosides or choline: Effects on spatial short-term memory in artificially-reared rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 67-77

  Wainwright, Patricia E ^a   Lomanowska, Anna M ^a   McCutcheon, Dawn ^a   Park, Eek J ^b   Clandinin, M Thomas ^c   Ramanujam, Kalathur S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MTI Meta Tech Inc   (Canada)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Brain; Choline; Development; Gangliosides; Learning

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; GANGLIOSIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN GROWTH; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WEANING;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGING; ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; GANGLIOSIDES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SWIMMING;

RATTUS;

EID: 34247580780     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150701284035     Document Type: Article

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