Urtica dioica extract attenuates depressive like behavior and associative memory dysfunction in dexamethasone induced diabetic mice

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 121-130

  Patel, Sita Sharan ^a,b   Udayabanu, Malairaman ^a  

^a JAYPEE UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Lakshmi Narain College of Pharmacy   (India)

Author keywords

Cognition; Depression; Dexamethasone; Hyperglycemia; Rosiglitazone; Urtica dioica

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 4; INSULIN; MESSENGER RNA; ROSIGLITAZONE; URTICA DIOICA EXTRACT; 2,4 THIAZOLIDINEDIONE DERIVATIVE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; PLANT EXTRACT; SLC2A4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERCORTISOLISM; HYPERGLYCEMIA; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPATIAL MEMORY; URTICA DIOICA; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SCREENING; GENETICS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYTOTHERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY; SWIMMING;

MUS; URTICA DIOICA;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 4; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; IMMOBILIZATION; INSULIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; THIAZOLIDINEDIONES; URTICA DIOICA;

EID: 84895873450     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-014-9480-0     Document Type: Article

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