Electroacupuncture decreases cognitive impairment and promotes neurogenesis in the APP/PS1 transgenic mice

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Xuying ^a   Guo, Fan ^a   Zhang, Qiaomei ^a   Huo, Tingting ^a   Liu, Lixin ^b   Wei, Haidong ^a   Xiong, Lize ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A deposits; Alzheimer's disease; BDNF; Electroacupuncture; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PRESENILIN 1; PRESENILIN 1, MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENETICS; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDERS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PATHOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROGENESIS; PRESENILIN-1;

EID: 84892635452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-14-37     Document Type: Article

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