Impact of dietary genistein and aging on executive function in rats

Neurotoxicology and Teratology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 200-211

  Neese, Steven L ^a   Wang, Victor C ^a   Doerge, Daniel R ^b   Woodling, Kellie A ^b   Andrade, Juan E ^a   Helferich, William G ^a   Korol, Donna L ^a   Schantz, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR TOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dopamine; Executive function; Genistein; Prefrontal

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; GENISTEIN;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LOW DRUG DOSE; MIDDLE AGED; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; REINFORCEMENT; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FOOD, FORMULATED; GENISTEIN; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; PHYTOESTROGENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE;

RATTUS;

EID: 77649274179     PISSN: 08920362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ntt.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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