Depressed hippocampal MEK/ERK phosphorylation correlates with impaired cognitive and synaptic function in zinc-deficient rats

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 45-50

  Jiang, Yu Gang ^a   Fang, Hong Yun ^a   Pang, Wei ^a   Liu, Jing ^a,b   Lu, Hao ^a,b   Ma, Qiang ^a   Fang, Heng Tong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (China)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cognition; CREB; Hippocampus; LTP; MEK ERK; Zinc deficiency

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CONDUCTION DISORDER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DENTATE GYRUS; DOWN-REGULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ZINC;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79957965095     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830510Y.0000000002     Document Type: Article

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