Oral administration of chicken breast extract increases brain carnosine and anserine concentrations in rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 181-186

  Tomonaga, Shozo ^a   Hayakawa, Toru ^b   Yamane, Haruka ^a   Maemura, Hirohiko ^b   Sato, Mikako ^b   Takahata, Yoshihisa ^b   Morimatsu, Fumiki ^b   Furuse, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEAT PACKERS INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anserine; Brain; Carnosine; Chicken breast extract; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANSERINE; CARNOSINE; CITRULLINE; DIPEPTIDE; NITRIC OXIDE;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANSERINE; BRAIN; CARNOSINE; CHICKENS; CITRULLINE; MEAT; RATS; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 34848913213     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10284150701587338     Document Type: Article

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