Auraptene consolidates memory, reverses scopolamine-disrupted memory in passive avoidance task, and ameliorates retention deficits in mice

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1014-1019

  Tabrizian, Kaveh ^a   Yaghoobi, Najmeh Sadat ^a   Iranshahi, Mehrdad ^b   Shahraki, Jafar ^a   Rezaee, Ramin ^c   Hashemzaei, Mahmoud ^a  

^a ZABOL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b MASHHAD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NORTH KHORASAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Auraptene; Avoidance memory retention; Mice; Scopolamine; Shuttle box

Indexed keywords

AURAPTENE; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STEP-THROUGH PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84945912031     PISSN: 20083866     EISSN: 20083874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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