Alterations in neuronal morphology and synaptophysin expression in the rat brain as a result of changes in dietary n-6: N-3 fatty acid ratios

Lipids in Health and Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hajjar, Toktam ^a   Goh, Yong Meng ^a   Rajion, Mohamed Ali ^a   Vidyadaran, Sharmili ^a   Li, Tan Ai ^a   Ebrahimi, Mahdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; n 3 polyunsaturated fatty acid; Neuronal morphology; Rats; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDIC ACID; ARACHIDONIC ACID; DECANOIC ACID; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; DOCOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; LAURIC ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; LINOLENIC ACID; MYRISTIC ACID; OCTANOIC ACID; OLEIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; PALMITIC ACID; PALMITOLEIC ACID; STEARIC ACID; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 84880875849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476511X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-511X-12-113     Document Type: Article

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