An n-3 fatty acid deficient diet affects mouse spatial learning in the Barnes circular maze

Prostaglandins Leukotrienes and Essential Fatty Acids

Volumn 77, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 269-277

  Fedorova, Irina ^a   Hussein, Nahed ^a   Di Martino, Carmine ^a   Moriguchi, Toru ^a   Hoshiba, Junji ^b   Majchrzak, Sharon ^a   Salem Jr , Norman ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART MUSCLE EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOCYTE FUNCTION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; DIETARY FATS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

MUS;

EID: 36649017293     PISSN: 09523278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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