Involvement of hippocampal Arc in amnesia and its recovery by alcoholic extract of Ashwagandha leaves

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 106, Issue , 2013, Pages 177-184

  Gautam, Akash ^a   Wadhwa, Renu ^b   Thakur, Mahendra K ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arc; Cerebral cortex; Hippocampus; I Extract; Memory; Scopolamine

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; ALCOHOL; ASHWAGANDHA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RNA; SCOPOLAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WITHANIA SOMNIFERA;

ARC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; I-EXTRACT; MEMORY; SCOPOLAMINE;

AMNESIA; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLANT EXTRACTS; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE; WITHANIA;

EID: 84884510459     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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