Long-lasting cognitive, physiological and hematological effects in rehabilitated, early dietary iron-deficiency adult rats, and improvement by treatment with a mixture of essential fatty acids

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 167-171

  Yehuda, Shlomo ^a   Rabinovitz, Sharon ^a   Carasso, Ralph L ^b   Mostofsky, David I ^c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HILLEL YAFFE MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Essential fatty acids; Iron deficiency; Long lasting effects; Morris Water Maze; Passive avoidance; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMATOLOGY; IRON DEFICIENCY; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THERMOREGULATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; COGNITION; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; HEMOGLOBINS; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

RATTUS;

EID: 50449111488     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683008X301568     Document Type: Article

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