Consumption of fig fruits grown in Oman can improve memory, anxiety, and learning skills in a transgenic mice model of Alzheimer's disease

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 475-483

  Subash, Selvaraju ^a   Essa, Musthafa Mohamed ^a   Braidy, Nady ^b   Al Jabri, Ahood ^a   Vaishnav, Ragini ^a,d   Al Adawi, Samir ^a   Al Asmi, Abdullah ^a   Guillemin, Gilles J ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Oman)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; APPsw Tg2576 mice behavior study; Figs; Oman; Rota rod test; Water maze

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM PHOSPHATE DIBASIC; CARBOHYDRATE; CASEIN; CELLULOSE; CHOLINE BITARTRATE; CITRATE POTASSIUM; CYSTINE; FAT; LARD; MALTODEXTRIN; PROTEIN; SOYBEAN OIL; STARCH; SUCROSE; NOOTROPIC AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEMALE; FIG; HUMIDITY; LEARNING; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHEMISTRY; DIET THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DISEASE MODEL; FICUS; FRUIT; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; GERMFREE ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; OMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; SPATIAL LEARNING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FICUS; FRUIT; FUNCTIONAL FOOD; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NOOTROPIC AGENTS; OMAN; PLANT EXTRACTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS;

EID: 84978525648     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1476830514Y.0000000131     Document Type: Article

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