Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) flower improves learning and memory performances impaired by diabetes mellitus in rats

Acta Physiologica Hungarica

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 409-420

  Cambay, Z ^a   Baydas, G ^b   Tuzcu, M ^a   Bal, Ramazan ^a  

^a FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b BINGOL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

cognitive functions; diabetes mellitus; GFAP; oxidative stress; pomegranate flowers

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; GLUTATHIONE; MALONALDEHYDE; PUNICA GRANATUM EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; FLOWER; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; POMEGRANATE; PROBE TRIAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; FLOWERS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; GLUTATHIONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PUNICACEAE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84255200808     PISSN: 0231424X     EISSN: 15882683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1556/APhysiol.98.2011.4.4     Document Type: Article

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