Hee Ra Park, Ju Yeon Kim, Yujeong Lee, Hye Jeong Chun, Young Whan Choi, Hwa Kyoung Shin, Byung Tae Choi, Cheol Min Kim, Jaewon Lee
The beneficial effects of traditional Korean medicine are recognized during the treatment of neurodegenerative conditions, such as, Alzheimer's disease and neurocognitive dysfunction, and recently, hippocampal neurogenesis has been reported to be associated with memory function. In this study, the authors investigated the beneficial effects of polygonum multiflorum Thunberg complex composition-12 (PMC-12), which is a mixture of four medicinal herbs, that is, Polygonum multiflorum, Polygala tenuifolia, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Acorus gramineus, on hippocampal neurogenesis, learning, and memory in mice...
March 23, 2016: Neuroscience Letters