Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761 attenuates hippocampal neuronal loss and cognitive dysfunction resulting from chronic restraint stress in ovariectomized rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 256-262

  Takuma, K ^a   Hoshina, Y ^a   Arai, S ^a   Himeno, Y ^a   Matsuo, A ^a   Funatsu, Y ^a   Kitahara, Y ^a   Ibi, D ^a   Hayase, M ^a   Kamei, H ^a,b   Mizoguchi, H ^a,c   Nagai, T ^a,d   Koike, K ^e   Inoue, M ^e   Yamada, K ^a,d  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

chronic stress; cognition; EGb 761; estrogen; ovariectomy

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; BONE DENSITY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MEMORY DISORDER; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROPROTECTION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BONE DENSITY; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; GINKGO BILOBA; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; OVARIECTOMY; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UTERUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 35348922970     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.07.042     Document Type: Article

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