The influence of the long-term administration of Curcuma longa extract on learning and spatial memory as well as the concentration of brain neurotransmitters and level of plasma corticosterone in aged rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-358

  Pyrzanowska, Justyna ^a   Piechal, Agnieszka ^a   Blecharz Klin, Kamilla ^a   Lehner, Małgorzata ^b   Skórzewska, Anna ^b   Turzyńska, Danuta ^b   Sobolewska, Alicja ^b   Plaznik, Adam ^b   Widy Tyszkiewicz, Ewa ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

5 Hydroxytryptamine; Aged rats; Corticosterone; Curcuma longa; Curcumin; Glutamic acid; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex; Taurine; Water maze

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN MONOAMINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CPE 014; CURCUMA LONGA EXTRACT; DOPAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SEROTONIN; TAURINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXCITOTOXICITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CURCUMA; DRUG EFFECTS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; CURCUMA LONGA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CURCUMA; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77950393581     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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