Osthole improves synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus and cognitive function of Alzheimer’s disease rats via regulating glutamate

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 7, Issue 30, 2012, Pages 2325-2332

  Dong, Xiao Hua ^a,b   Zhang, Dan Shen ^a,b   Zhang, Li ^b   Li, Wei ^b   Meng, Xian Yong ^b  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HEBEI NORTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alzheimer s disease; Brain; Glutamate; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Long term potentiation; Neural regeneration; Osthole; amyloid peptide; amino butyric acid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893050905     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: 18767958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2012.30.001     Document Type: Article

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