CART treatment improves memory and synaptic structure in APP/PS1 mice

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jin, Jia Li ^a,c   Liou, Anthony K F ^b   Shi, Yejie ^b   Yin, Kai Lin ^a,c   Chen, Ling ^d   Li, Ling Ling ^a,c   Zhu, Xiao Lei ^a,c   Qian, Lai ^a,c   Yang, Rong ^d   Chen, Jun ^b   Xu, Yun ^a,c  

^a THE AFFILIATED DRUM TOWER HOSPITAL OF NANJING UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NERVE PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NEURITE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SYNAPSE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOCHONDRIA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURITES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLAQUE, AMYLOID; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84929193243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10224     Document Type: Article

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