Effects of saffron (Crocus sativus L.) and its active constituent, crocin, on recognition and spatial memory after chronic cerebral hypoperfusion in rats

Phytotherapy Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 381-386

  Hosseinzadeh, Hossein ^a   Sadeghnia, Hamid Reza ^b   Ghaeni, Fatemeh Abbasi ^a   Motamedshariaty, Vahideh Sadat ^a   Mohajeri, Seyed Ahmad ^a  

^a MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion; Crocin; Crocus sativus; Memory

Indexed keywords

CROCIN; CROCUS SATIVUS EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; CAROTENOIDS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CORONARY OCCLUSION; CROCUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

CROCUS SATIVUS; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 84858005351     PISSN: 0951418X     EISSN: 10991573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ptr.3566     Document Type: Article

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