Dietary polyphenol supplementation prevents alterations of spatial navigation in middle-aged mice

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue FEB, 2016, Pages

  Bensalem, Julien ^a,b,c   Servant, Laure ^a,b   Alfos, Serge ^a,b   Gaudout, David ^c   Layé, Sophie ^a,b   Pallet, Véronique ^a,b   Lafenetre, Pauline ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b NutriNeuro Bordeaux University   (France)

^c Espace Legendre   (France)

Author keywords

Age; Berries; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Navigation; Polyphenols; Strategy

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; FLAVONOID; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; POLYPHENOL; STILBENE;

ADULT; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLUEBERRY; CAMKII GENE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD INTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAPE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NGF GENE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84960129138     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2016.00009     Document Type: Article

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