Flavonoids and brain health: Multiple effects underpinned by common mechanisms

Genes and Nutrition

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 243-250

  Spencer, Jeremy P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Cognitive performance; Flavonoid; Memory; Neurodegeneration; Neuroinflammation; Signalling

Indexed keywords

BACALEIN; CAFFEIC ACID; CATECHIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; FISETIN; FLAVANONE DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; GENISTEIN; GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; HESPERETIN; IBUPROFEN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NARINGENIN; NEUROTOXIN; PELARGONIDIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; QUERCETIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WOGONIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COGNITION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG MECHANISM; FOOD COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MENTAL HEALTH; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARKINSON DISEASE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 71949107443     PISSN: 15558932     EISSN: 18653499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12263-009-0136-3     Document Type: Review

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