A high-cholesterol diet enriched with polyphenols from Oriental plums (Prunus salicina) improves cognitive function and lowers brain cholesterol levels and neurodegenerative-related protein expression in mice

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1550-1557

  Kuo, Ping Hui ^a   Lin, Ching I ^b   Chen, Yue Hwa ^a   Chiu, Wan Chun ^a   Lin, Shyh Hsiang ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAINAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

24 Hydroxycholesterol; Alzheimer's disease; Cholesterol; Neurodegeneration; Oriental plums; Amyloid

Indexed keywords

24 HYDROXYCHOLESTEROL; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE 1; CHOLESTEROL DERIVATIVE; CHOLESTEROL HYDROXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; OXYGENASE; POLYPHENOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ASPARTIC PROTEINASE; BACE1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL 24-HYDROXYLASE; HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC AGENT; NERVE PROTEIN; NOOTROPIC AGENT; SECRETASE; STEROID MONOOXYGENASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL BRAIN LEVEL; CHOLESTEROL DIET; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTAL PLUM; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLUM; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRUNUS; PRUNUS SALICINA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; RANDOMIZATION;

MUS; PRUNUS DOMESTICA; PRUNUS SALICINA;

AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES; ANIMALS; ANTICHOLESTEREMIC AGENTS; ASPARTIC ACID ENDOPEPTIDASES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHOLESTEROL; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FRUIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; POLYPHENOLS; PRUNUS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STEROID HYDROXYLASES;

EID: 84929835491     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114515000732     Document Type: Article

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