Electroacupuncture treatment improves learning-memory ability and brain glucose metabolism in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease: Using Morris water maze and micro-PET

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jiang, Jing ^a   Gao, Kai ^b   Zhou, Yuan ^a   Xu, Anping ^a   Shi, Suhua ^a   Liu, Gang ^c   Li, Zhigang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF LABORATORY ANIMAL SCIENCE   (China)

^c Zuojiangzhuang Community Health Service Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MICROPOSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE ACCELERATED MOUSE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84925423495     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/142129     Document Type: Article

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