Docosahexaenoic acid ameliorates aluminum induced biochemical and morphological alteration in rat cerebellum

Annals of Neurosciences

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-9

  Chaudhary, Manisha ^a   Joshi, Devesh K ^a   Tripathi, Sandeep ^a   Kulshrestha, Shobha ^a   Mahdi, Abbas A ^b  

^a NIMS UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Aluminum; Behavioral study; Cerebellum; Docosahexaenoic acid

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; CARBONYL DERIVATIVE; CATALASE; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; LIPID PEROXIDE; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM DEGENERATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; GRANULAR CELL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LEARNING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHARYNX; PURKINJE CELL; RAT;

EID: 84901813146     PISSN: 09727531     EISSN: 09763260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5214/ans.0972.7531.210103     Document Type: Article

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