Chronic Rumex Patientia Seed Feeding Improves Passive Avoidance Learning and Memory in Streptozotocin-Diabetic Rats

addition, different kinds of neuropathies are one of the major complications contributing to morbidity in patients with diabetes mellitus. Pathological studies have also suggested that diabetes is one of the risk factors for senile dementia of Alzheimer’s type (4). Although many studies about the relationship between diabetes and peripheral neuropathy have been done to date, however, the effects and consequences of diabetes on the brain itself have not been much studied and no marked structural abnormality has been found in the central nervous system of patients with diabetic neuropathy using routine staining methods (5). Functionally, pas