Aqueous extract of lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) improves the spatial performance of a rat model of Alzheimer's disease

Neuroscience Bulletin

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-106

  Kashani, Masoud Soheili ^a   Tavirani, Mostafa Rezaei ^a   Talaei, Sayyed Alireza ^b   Salami, Mahmoud ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Lavandula angustifolia; rat; spatial learning; water maze

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; LAVANDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; LAVENDER; LAVENDULA ANGUSTIFOLIA; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; RECALL; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LAVANDULA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT PREPARATIONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79957457365     PISSN: 16737067     EISSN: 19958218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12264-011-1149-7     Document Type: Article

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