Diphenyl diselenide ameliorates cognitive deficits induced by a model of menopause in rats

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 98-104

  Da Rocha, Juliana T ^a   Pinton, Simone ^a   Mazzanti, Alexandre ^b   Mazzanti, Cinthia M ^b   Beckemann, Diego V ^b   Nogueira, Cristina W ^a   Zeni, Gilson ^a  

^a Reatividade e Avaliacao Farmacologica e Toxicologica de Organocalcogenios   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA MARIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

diphenyl diselenide; estrogen; memory; menopause; ovariectomy; rat; selenium

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; BRAIN ENZYME; DIPHENYL DISELENIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MAZE TEST; MENOPAUSE; MENOPAUSE RELATED DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OVARIECTOMY; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENOPAUSE; MODELS, ANIMAL; ORGANOSELENIUM COMPOUNDS; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84855685014     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32834ed849     Document Type: Article

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