Vitamin B6 prevents cognitive impairment in experimental pneumococcal meningitis

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 239, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1360-1365

  Barichello, Tatiana ^a,b   Generoso, Jaqueline S ^a   Simões, Lutiana R ^a   Ceretta, Renan A ^a   Dominguini, Diogo ^a   Ferrari, Pâmela ^c   Gubert, Carolina ^c   Jornada, Luciano K ^a   Budni, Josiane ^a   Kapczinski, Flávio ^b,c   Quevedo, João ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE DO EXTREMO SUL CATARINENSE   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

BDNF; Memory; Pneumococcal meningitis; Vitamin B6

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEFTRIAXONE; GLUTAMIC ACID; KYNURENINE; PYRIDOXAL 5 PHOSPHATE; PYRIDOXINE; VITAMIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STEP-DOWN PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; TRAINING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; PATHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RATTUS NORVEGICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MENINGITIS, PNEUMOCOCCAL; RATS, WISTAR; VITAMIN B 6; VITAMINS;

EID: 84920919034     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1535370214535896     Document Type: Article

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