Memory performance, brain excitatory amino acid and acetylcholinesterase activity of chronically aluminum exposed mice in response to soy isoflavones treatment

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1451-1456

  Liu, Yan Qiang ^a   Xin, Tian Rong ^b   Liang, Jing Jing ^a   Wang, Wei Ming ^a   Zhang, Yuan Yuan ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

acetylcholinesterase; Al exposure; amino acids; memory; mice; soy isoflavones

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALUMINUM; ASPARTIC ACID; DAIDZIN; GENISTEIN; GENISTIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCITEIN;

AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALUMINUM; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; ISOFLAVONES; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; SOYBEANS;

MUS;

EID: 78649425590     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3120     Document Type: Article

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