Curcumin Enhances Neurogenesis and Cognition in Aged Rats: Implications for Transcriptional Interactions Related to Growth and Synaptic Plasticity

Dong, Suzhen; Zeng, Qingwen; Siobhan Mitchell, Ellen; Xiu, Jin; Duan, Yale; Li, Chunxia; Kumar Tiwari, Jyoti; Hu, Yinghe; Cao, Xiaohua; Zhao, Zheng

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031211

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Curcumin Enhances Neurogenesis and Cognition in Aged Rats: Implications for Transcriptional Interactions Related to Growth and Synaptic Plasticity

Published in PLoS ONE • Feb 16, 2012

Authors:

Suzhen Dong

Qingwen Zeng

Ellen Siobhan Mitchell

Abstract

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...

Subject

Neurogenesis

Curcumin

Hippocampal formation

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