Investigation of thymol effect on learning and memory impairment induced by intrahippocampal injection of amyloid beta peptide in high fat diet- fed rats

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 827-839

  Asadbegi, Masoumeh ^a   Yaghmaei, Parichehreh ^a   Salehi, Iraj ^b   Komaki, Alireza ^b   Ebrahim Habibi, Azadeh ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b HAMADAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Abeta; Alzheimer's disease; High fat diet; Memory; Thymol

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; SUNFLOWER OIL; THYMOL; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN (1-42); ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ADULT; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LEARNING DISORDER; LIPID DIET; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WISTAR RAT;

AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DIET, HIGH-FAT; HIPPOCAMPUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THYMOL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85014061087     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: 15737365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-017-9960-0     Document Type: Article

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