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Prior experience, antioxidants, and mitochondrial cofactors improve cognitive function in aged beagles.

@article{IkedaDouglas2004PriorEA,
  title={Prior experience, antioxidants, and mitochondrial cofactors improve cognitive function in aged beagles.},
  author={Candace J. Ikeda-Douglas and Steven Curtis Zicker and Jimena Estrada and Dennis E. Jewell and Norton W. Milgram},
  journal={Veterinary therapeutics : research in applied veterinary medicine},
  year={2004},
  volume={5 1},
  pages={
          5-16
        }
}
Results of this study support the free-radical theory of aging and demonstrated that providing higher levels of vitamin E in food resulted in higher serum vitamin E concentrations and improved performance on landmark-discrimination tasks in aged dogs. Factors other than vitamin E also contributed to the response but remain undefined. 
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