Long-Term Artificial Sweetener Acesulfame Potassium Treatment Alters Neurometabolic Functions in C57BL/6J Mice

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Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Cong, Wei na ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Cai, Huan ^a   Daimon, Caitlin M ^a   Scheibye Knudsen, Morten ^a   Bohr, Vilhelm A ^a   Turkin, Rebecca ^a   Wood III, William H ^a   Becker, Kevin G ^a   Moaddel, Ruin ^a   Maudsley, Stuart ^a   Martin, Bronwen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACESULFAME; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CHOLESTEROL; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; LEPTIN; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DEPLETION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL SURVIVAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPLETION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FOOD INTAKE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN SENSITIVITY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; METABOLIC BALANCE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECTIVE PREFERENCE TEST; PANCREAS ISLET SIZE; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; COGNITION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; INSULIN; ISLETS OF LANGERHANS; LEPTIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGAN SIZE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEETENING AGENTS; THIAZINES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84881357687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070257     Document Type: Article

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