Curcumin enhances neurogenesis and cognition in aged rats: implications for transcriptional interactions related to growth and synaptic plasticity.

BACKGROUND: Curcumin has been demonstrated to have many neuroprotective properties, including improvement of cognition in humans and neurogenesis in animals, yet the mechanism of such effects remains unclear. METHODOLOGY: We assessed behavioural performance and hippocampal cell proliferation in aged...

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Main Authors: Suzhen Dong, Qingwen Zeng, E Siobhan Mitchell, Jin Xiu, Yale Duan, Chunxia Li, Jyoti K Tiwari, Yinghe Hu, Xiaohua Cao, Zheng Zhao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3281036?pdf=render