Effect of piracetam and vitamin E on phosphamidon-induced impairment of memory and oxidative stress in rats

Drug and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 48-54

  Kosta, Prabhat ^a   Mehta, Ashish K ^a   Sharma, Amit K ^a   Khanna, Naresh ^a   Mediratta, Pramod K ^a   Mundhada, Dharmendra R ^b   Suke, Sanvidhan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Agnihotri College of Pharmacy Wardha   (India)

^c DR B R AMBEDKAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Phosphamidon; Piracetam; Step down latency; Transfer latency; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; MALONALDEHYDE; PHOSPHAMIDON; PIRACETAM; THIOL DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN LEVEL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; RAT; STEP DOWN LATENCY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSFER LATENCY;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COGNITION; LIPID PEROXIDATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHOSPHAMIDON; PIRACETAM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SULFHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; VITAMIN E;

RATTUS;

EID: 84869806064     PISSN: 01480545     EISSN: 15256014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01480545.2011.649093     Document Type: Article

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