Neuroprotective effect of alpha-asarone on spatial memory and nitric oxide levels in rats injected with amyloid-β(25-35)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 453, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 98-103

  Limón, Ilhuicamina Daniel ^a,d   Mendieta, Liliana ^a   Díaz, Alfonso ^a,d   Chamorro, Germán ^b   Espinosa, Blanca ^c   Zenteno, Edgar ^e   Guevara, Jorge ^e  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES RESPIRATORIAS   (Mexico)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Amyloid ; Antioxidant; Hippocampus; Oxidative stress; Reactive oxygen species; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ASARONE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[25-35]; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRITE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; ANISOLES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICROINJECTIONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILVER STAINING; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 61749093782     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.02.011     Document Type: Article

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