The effects of black garlic ethanol extract on the spatial memory and estimated total number of pyramidal cells of the hippocampus of monosodium glutamate-exposed adolescent male Wistar rats

Anatomical Science International

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 275-286

  Hermawati, Ery ^a,b   Sari, Dwi Cahyani Ratna ^a   Partadiredja, Ginus ^a  

^a GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^b TANJUNGPURA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Black garlic; Hippocampus; Monosodium glutamate; Pyramidal cells; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BLACK GARLIC EXTRACT; GARLIC EXTRACT; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER; ALCOHOL; PLANT EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLACK GARLIC; COGNITIVE FUNCTION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCAPE ACQUISITION TEST; ESCAPE LATENCY; FERMENTED PRODUCT; GARLIC; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; MALE; MEMORY PERSISTENCE TEST; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NONHUMAN; PATH LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY TEST; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CELL COUNT; ETHANOL; GARLIC; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84940448326     PISSN: 14476959     EISSN: 1447073X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12565-014-0262-x     Document Type: Article

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