Green tea averts age-dependent decline of hippocampal signaling systems related to antioxidant defenses and survival

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 831-838

  Assunção, Marco ^a   Santos Marques, Maria J ^a   Carvalho, Félix ^b   Andrade, José P ^a  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

^b Rua do Campo Alegre s n   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aging; Antioxidant enzymes; Bcl 2; BDNF; Catechins; CREB; Free radicals; Glutathione; Green tea; Hippocampal formation; Rat

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEA; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEA;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 76049127348     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2010.01.003     Document Type: Article

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