Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid improves spatial learning and hippocampal Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptors (PPARα and PPARγ) gene expression in rats

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hajjar, Toktam ^a   Meng, Goh Y ^a   Rajion, Mohamed A ^a   Vidyadaran, Sharmili ^a   Othman, Fauziah ^a   Farjam, Abdoreza S ^a   Li, Tan A ^a   Ebrahimi, Mahdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; n 6: n 3 PUFA ratio; PPAR; PUFA; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

MENHADEN OIL; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR ALPHA; PEROXISOME PROLIFERATOR ACTIVATED RECEPTOR GAMMA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; UPREGULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PPAR ALPHA; PPAR GAMMA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); RNA, MESSENGER; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84866280256     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-13-109     Document Type: Article

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