Protective effects of total alkaloidal extract from Murraya koenigii leaves on experimentally induced dementia

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1036-1044

  Mani, Vasudevan ^a   Ramasamy, Kalavathy ^a   Ahmad, Aliya ^a   Parle, Milind ^b   Shah, Syed Adnan Ali ^a   Majeed, Abu Bakar Abdul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b GURU JAMBHESHWAR UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Alzheimer's disease; Amnesia; BACE1; Memory; Murraya koenigii

Indexed keywords

ALKALOID; BETA SECRETASE 1; CHOLINESTERASE; METRIFONATE; MURRAYA KOENIGII ALKALOID; PIRACETAM; PLANT EXTRACT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AGED; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME INHIBITION; IC 50; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL TEST; MOUSE; MURRAYA KOENIGII; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PLANT LEAF; SCORING SYSTEM; STEP DOWN LATENCY; TOXICITY TESTING; TRANSFER LATENCY;

ALKALOIDS; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASES; DEMENTIA; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MICE; MURRAYA; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT LEAVES;

MURRAYA KOENIGII; MUS;

EID: 84856485733     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2011.11.037     Document Type: Article

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