title: Effect of selected thallophytic glucans on learning behaviour and short-term potentiation.
abstract: This paper reviews the effects of thallophytic glucans on rodent cognitive performance modelled by a combination of behavioural and electrophysiological approaches. Glucans were isolated from thallophytic plants, based on prescriptions used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. In parallel with the already described enhancement of hippocampal synaptic plasticity by disaccharides, polysaccharides isolated from lichens Flavoparmelia caperata and Cetrariella islandica, enhanced hippocampal plasticity and behavioural performance in rats.
authors.affiliation: Ajinomoto Co., Inc., Central Research Laboratories, Kawasaki 210-8681, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smriga
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Saito
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005936:Glucans / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007858:Learning / Q000187:drug effects*; D008011:Lichens; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D008518:Medicine, East Asian Traditional; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000187:drug effects*; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D005936:Glucans