Clitoria ternatea ameliorated the intracerebroventricularly injected streptozotocin induced cognitive impairment in rats: Behavioral and biochemical evidence

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 230, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 589-605

  Mehla, Jogender ^a   Pahuja, Monika ^a   Gupta, Pooja ^a   Dethe, Shekhar ^b   Agarwal, Amit ^b   Gupta, Yogendra Kumar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b RandD Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Cholinesterase activity; Clitoria ternatea; In vitro; Rho kinase (ROCK II); Streptozotocin

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANTIOXIDANT; CHOLINESTERASE; CLITORIA TERNATEA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RHO KINASE; STREPTOZOCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CLITORIA TERNATEA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ENZYME INHIBITION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHOLINESTERASES; CLITORIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGERS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; STREPTOZOCIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84890435604     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-013-3185-7     Document Type: Article

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