The low and high doses administration of lutein improves memory and synaptic plasticity impairment through different mechanisms in a rat model of vascular dementia

• Hamideh Asadi nejad,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, The Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

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• Amirhossein Yousefi Nejad,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Veterinary Medicine Islamic Azad University of Kazeroon, Shiraz, Iran

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• Somayeh Akbari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Histomorphometry and Stereology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

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• Maryam Naseh,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Histomorphometry and Stereology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

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• Seyed Mostafa Shid Moosavi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiology, The Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

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• Masoud Haghani

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: haghani@sums.ac.ir

  Affiliations Department of Physiology, The Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran, Histomorphometry and Stereology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8225-6354

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