Treatment with reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) improves water maze performance in old Wistar rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 149-153

  Rex, André ^a   Spychalla, Markus ^a   Fink, Heidrun ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning; Memory; Morris water maze; NADH; Old rat; Rota rod

Indexed keywords

NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; FOLLOW UP; INJECTION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENERGY METABOLISM; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR SKILLS; NAD; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST;

EID: 4043175639     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.02.001     Document Type: Article

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