Masoumeh Asadbegi

Treadmill exercise alters ecstasy- induced long- term potentiation disruption in the hippocampus of male rats.

Metabolic Brain Disease October 2017 Azam Sajadi, Iraj Amiri, Alireza Gharebaghi et al.

3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) or ecstasy is a derivative of amphetamine that leads to long term potentiation (LTP) disruption in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG). Exercise has been accepted as a treatment for the improvement of neurodegenerative disease. Herein, the effects of exercise on the MDMA- induced neurotoxicity were assessed. Male Wistar rats received intraperitoneal...