Specific timing of taurine supplementation affects learning ability in mice

Life Sciences

Volumn 81, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 1228-1234

  Suge, Rie ^a   Hosoe, Nobuo ^b   Furube, Masaru ^b   Yamamoto, Tetsu ^c   Hirayama, Akihiko ^c   Hirano, Shusuke ^d   Nomura, Masahiko ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY SAKURA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c TOKYO DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d Nukada Institute for Medical and Biological Research   (Japan)

Author keywords

Learning and memory; Mice; Perinatal; Pre weaning; Taurine; Visual discrimination

Indexed keywords

TAURINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LEARNING; MAMMAL; MILK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL PERIOD; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REACTION TIME; TAURINE; TIME FACTORS;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 34848841763     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2007.08.028     Document Type: Article

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