Curcumin exerts neuroprotective effects against homocysteine intracerebroventricular injection-induced cognitive impairment and oxidative stress in rat brain

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 821-826

  Ataie, Amin ^a,b   Sabetkasaei, Masoumeh ^a,b   Haghparast, Abbas ^a   Moghaddam, Akbar Hajizadeh ^c   Ataee, Ramin ^d   Moghaddam, Shiva Nasiraei ^a  

^a Neuroscience Research Center   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAZANDARAN   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

curcumin; homocysteine; lipid peroxidation; oxidative stress; rat

Indexed keywords

CURCUMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; MALONALDEHYDE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; LEARNING TEST; LIPID PEROXIDATION; LOCOMOTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; CURCUMIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

RATTUS;

EID: 77955202249     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.2009.1278     Document Type: Article

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