Protective effects of chronic treatment with a standardized extract of Ginkgo biloba L. in the prefrontal cortex and dorsal hippocampus of middle-aged rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 313, Issue , 2016, Pages 144-150

  Ribeiro, Marcelo L ^a,b   Moreira, Luciana M ^a,b   Arçari, Demetrius P ^a,b   dos Santos, Letícia França ^a,b   Marques, Antônio Cezar ^a,b   Pedrazzoli, José ^a,b   Cerutti, Suzete M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE SÃO FRANCISCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GINKGO BILOBA EXTRACT; ANTIOXIDANT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMET ASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; DRUG EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PLUS MAZE DISCRIMINATIVE AVOIDANCE TASK; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; CELL SURVIVAL; DRUG EFFECTS; GINKGO BILOBA; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; ANXIETY; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA DAMAGE; GINKGO BILOBA; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84978715914     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.06.029     Document Type: Article

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