Flavonoids, cognition, and dementia: Actions, mechanisms, and potential therapeutic utility for Alzheimer disease

Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35-45

  Williams, Robert J ^a   Spencer, Jeremy P E ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain; Cell signaling; Cognition; Dementia; Flavonoid; Free radicals; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADAM10 ENDOPEPTIDASE; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE 1; FLAVONOID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BLUEBERRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN REGION; CACAO; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEA;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COGNITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FLAVONOIDS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

RODENTIA; THEOBROMA CACAO; VACCINIUM;

EID: 84655167890     PISSN: 08915849     EISSN: 18734596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2011.09.010     Document Type: Review

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