Chronic administration of DHA and UMP improves the impaired memory of environmentally impoverished rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 11-16

  Holguin, Sarah ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Liu, Jenny ^a   Wurtman, Richard ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choline; DHA learning; Memory; UMP

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CYTIDINE DIPHOSPHATE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; URIDINE; URIDINE PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPSY; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMPOVERISHED ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; URIDINE MONOPHOSPHATE;

EID: 43249095375     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.02.042     Document Type: Article

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