Chronic vascular risk factors (cholesterol, homocysteine, ethanol) impair spatial memory, decline cholinergic neurons and induce blood-brain barrier leakage in rats in vivo

Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Volumn 322, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 92-95

  Ehrlich, Daniela ^a   Humpel, Christian ^a  

^a Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Blood brain barrier leakage; Vascular dementia; Vascular risk factors

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; HOMOCYSTEINE; TAU PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN CORTEX; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHANOL; HOMOCYSTEINE; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RISK FACTORS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867575586     PISSN: 0022510X     EISSN: 18785883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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