Effects of palatable cafeteria diet on cognitive and noncognitive behaviors and brain neurotrophins’ levels in mice

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1073-1082

  Leffa, Daniela D ^a,b   Valvassori, Samira S ^a   Varela, Roger B ^a   Lopes Borges, Jésica ^a   Daumann, Francine ^a   Longaretti, Luiza M ^a   Dajori, Ana Luiza F ^a   Quevedo, João ^a,b   Andrade, Vanessa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Anxiety; BDNF; Cognition; NGF; Palatable cafeteria diet

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SUGAR INTAKE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BEHAVIOR; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CALORIC INTAKE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FORCED SWIM TEST; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; OPEN FIELD TEST; PALATABLE CAFETERIA DIET; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; LIPID DIET; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SUGAR INTAKE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION; DIET, HIGH-FAT; DIETARY SUCROSE; ENERGY INTAKE; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS;

EID: 84956920017     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-015-9682-0     Document Type: Article

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