Fenugreek seed powder nullified aluminium chloride induced memory loss, biochemical changes, Aβ burden and apoptosis via regulating Akt/GSK3β signaling pathway

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Prema, Asokan ^a   Thenmozhi, Arokiasamy Justin ^a   Manivasagam, Thamilarasan ^a   Essa, Musthafa Mohamed ^b,c   Akbar, Mohammed ^d   Akbar, Mohammed D ^d  

^a ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^c Food and Brain Research Foundation   (India)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALUMINUM; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; BETA SECRETASE; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 9; CYTOCHROME C; GAMMA SECRETASE; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3BETA; HERBACEOUS AGENT; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN KINASE B; ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; ALUMINUM DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; FENUGREEK SEED MEAL; GSK3B PROTEIN, RAT; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; PLANT EXTRACT;

ALUMINUM OVERLOAD; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRY POWDER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FENUGREEK; GERMINATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT SEED; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; LEARNING; MEDICINAL PLANT; MEMORY DISORDERS; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIGONELLA; WISTAR RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CHLORIDES; GLYCOGEN SYNTHASE KINASE 3 BETA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; RATS, WISTAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRIGONELLA; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84998693393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165955     Document Type: Article

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