Taurine ameliorates neurobehavioral, neurochemical and immunohistochemical changes in sporadic dementia of Alzheimer's type (SDAT) caused by intracerebroventricular streptozotocin in rats

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2181-2192

  Islam, Fakhrul ^a,c   Javed, Hayate ^a   Khan, Andleeb ^a   Vaibhav, Kumar ^a   Moshahid Khan, Mohd ^a,d   Ahmad, Ajmal ^a,d   Ejaz Ahmad, Md ^a   Ahmad, Ashafaq ^a   Tabassum, Rizwana ^a   Islam, Farah ^b   Safhi, Mohammed M ^c  

^a HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b HAMDARD UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c JAZAN UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Cognitive impairments; Oxidative stress; Streptozotocin; Taurine

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CATALASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; STREPTOZOCIN; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TAURINE; THIOBARBITURIC ACID REACTIVE SUBSTANCE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPORADIC DEMENTIA OF ALZHEIMER TYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STREPTOZOCIN; TAURINE;

EID: 84890557157     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: 15903478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-013-1444-3     Document Type: Article

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