Effects of sucrose and high fructose corn syrup consumption on spatial memory function and hippocampal neuroinflammation in adolescent rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 227-239

  Hsu, Ted M ^a   Konanur, Vaibhav R ^a   Taing, Lilly ^a   Usui, Ryan ^a   Kayser, Brandon D ^a,b   Goran, Michael I ^b   Kanoski, Scott E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Carbohydrate; Hippocampus; Obesity; Sugar

Indexed keywords

CORN SYRUP; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; SUCROSE; IL1B PROTEIN, RAT; SUGAR INTAKE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LEARNING DISORDER; LIVER LEVEL; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; EATING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOMODULATION; LIVER; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUGAR INTAKE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BODY WEIGHT; DIETARY SUCROSE; EATING; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INSULIN; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; INTERLEUKIN-6; LIVER; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84921320404     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22368     Document Type: Article

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