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ArticleThe West Indian medical journal2015

Protective Effects of Liquiritin on the Brain of Rats with Alzheimer's Disease.

X Huang, Y Wang, K Ren

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Article in The West Indian medical journal, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

X HuangDepartment of Pharmacology, Jilin Medical University, Jilin, China. E-mail: hxd1221@163.com.
Y WangDepartment of Pharmacology, Jilin Medical University, Jilin, China.
K RenDepartment of Pharmacology, Jilin Medical University, Jilin, China.
Jilin Medical University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a sort of nerve degenerative disease with clinical manifestation of memory damage and cognitive dysfunction. Its typical pathological change is the abnormal deposition of amyloid-beta (Aβ). Method: In this study, a rat AD model with liquiritin (LQ) interference was established to observe the effects of LQ on the AD rats' behavioural memory and primary hippocampus cells. Results: Liquiritin had the effect of improving the rats' learning and memory ability, enhancing the activity of catalase (CAT), superoxide dismutase (SOD) and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) in rats' brain tissues, increasing the antioxidant ability, protecting the primary cultured hippocampal neurons and inhibiting the apoptosis induced by Aβ Conclusion: The protective effects of LQ can be related to the enhancement of antioxidase activity and clearance of oxygen radicals.

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PMID27399208
PMCPMC4961333
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