Title: Effectiveness of Huperzine A,Nimodipine and the combinative utilization to age associated memory impairment and influence of those to levels of plasma total antioxidant capacity and calcium of platelet
Abstract:Objective To study the effectiveness of Huperzine A,Nimodipine and the combinative utilization to age associated memory impairment(AAMI) and the influence of those to the plasma total antioxidant capa...Objective To study the effectiveness of Huperzine A,Nimodipine and the combinative utilization to age associated memory impairment(AAMI) and the influence of those to the plasma total antioxidant capacity(TAC) and calcium of platelet.Methods 140 patients with AAMI were randomly divided into 4 groups(35 cases in each group).Huperzine group administrated with Huperzine A 100 μg thrice a day;Nimodipine group administrated with Nimodipine 30 mg thrice a day;combined group administrated with Huperzine A 100 μg twice a day and Nimodipine 30 mg thrice a day;control group administrated with Vitamin B6 10 mg thrice a day.All the cases were treated for 6 weeks.Before and after treatment,the memory function were tested by WMS.The levels of plasma TAC and calcium of platelet were also measured at the same time.Results After treatment,the scores of WMS,the levels of plasma TAC and calcium of platelet in Huperzine A group,Nimodipine group and combined group were higher than before treatment and those in control group(all P0.05).And those indexes in combine group were significantly higher than those in Huperzine A group and Nimodipine group(all P0.05).Conclusions The utilization of Huperzine A or Nimodipine and the combination are clinically effective for AAMI,the combinative utilization has better effective.And they can increased the levels of the plasma TAC and calcium of platelet.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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