Vitamin C reverses lead-induced deficits in hippocampal synaptic plasticity in rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 7-15

  Karamian, Ruhollah ^a   Komaki, Alireza ^a   Salehi, Iraj ^a   Tahmasebi, Lida ^a   Komaki, Hamidreza ^a   Shahidi, Siamak ^a   Sarihi, Abdolrahman ^a  

^a HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Dentate gyrus; Lead acetate; Long term potentiation; Synaptic plasticity; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; LEAD; MALONALDEHYDE; ANTIOXIDANT; LEAD ACETATE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULAR CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN VIVO STUDY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT DURATION; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; COGNITION DISORDERS; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MALONDIALDEHYDE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84936153673     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2015.05.004     Document Type: Article

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