Effects of aged garlic extract on cholinergic, glutamatergic and GABAergic systems with regard to cognitive impairment in Aβ-induced rats

Nutrients

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Thorajak, Piyaporn ^a,b   Pannangrong, Wanassanun ^a,b   Welbat, Jariya Umka ^a,b   Chaijaroonkhanarak, Wunnee ^a   Sripanidkulchai, Kittisak ^a,b   Sripanidkulchai, Bungorn ^b  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Aged garlic extract; Alzheimer s disease; Amyloid ; Cholinergic neurons; Glutamate decarboxylase; Radial arm maze; Vesicular glutamate transporters

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; GARLIC EXTRACT; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; SLC17A6 PROTEIN, RAT; SLC17A7 PROTEIN, RAT;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; TISSUE PREPARATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GARLIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; WISTAR RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GARLIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 85021914499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu9070686     Document Type: Article

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