Source Paper
Reversals of Age-Related Declines in Neuronal Signal Transduction, Cognitive, and Motor Behavioral Deficits with Blueberry, Spinach, or Strawberry Dietary Supplementation
James A. Joseph, Barbara Shukitt-Hale, Natalia A. Denisova, Donna Bielinski, Antonio Martin et al.
Journal of Neuroscience • 1999
Rod Walking Task
Objective: Assessment of motor behavioral performance using rod walking to evaluate motor function and age-related motor behavioral deficits in aging rats
This is a Rod Walking Task protocol using rat as the model organism. The procedure involves 2 procedural steps, 1 equipment items, 3 materials. Extracted from a 1999 paper published in Journal of Neuroscience.
Model and subjects
rat • Fischer 344 • Not specified • 19 months old • Not specified • Not specified
Study window
~8 week study window
Core workflow
Dietary supplementation period • Rod walking task performance assessment
Primary readouts
- Motor behavioral performance on rod walking task
- Age-related motor behavioral deficits
- Reversal of age-related motor behavioral declines
Key equipment and reagents
Use this page as an execution guide, then fall back to the source paper whenever you need exact exclusions, dosing details, or assay-specific caveats.
Confirm first
- Verify the animal model, intervention setup, and collection timepoints against the source paper.
- Check that every direct vendor link matches the exact specification your lab plans to run.
Use the page like this
- Work through the protocol steps in order and use the inline vendor chips only when you need to source or verify an item.
- Jump to Experimental Context for readouts, data shape, and analysis flow before planning downstream analysis.
Protocol Steps
Start here. The step list is optimized for running the experiment, with direct vendor links available inline when you need to source a cited item.
Dietary supplementation period
Rats were fed dietary supplements of strawberry, spinach, or blueberry extracts for 8 weeks
Note: Supplements were administered at specific concentrations: strawberry at 14.8, spinach at 9.1, or blueberry at 18.6 gm of dried aqueous extract per kilogram of diet
View evidence from paper
“such supplements (strawberry, spinach, or blueberry at 14.8, 9.1, or 18.6 gm of dried aqueous extract per kilogram of diet, respectively) fed for 8 weeks to 19-month-old Fischer 344 rats”
Rod walking task performance assessment
Rats were tested on the rod walking task to evaluate motor behavioral performance
Note: This task was used to measure age-related motor behavioral deficits and their reversal by dietary supplementation
View evidence from paper
“motor behavioral performance on the rod walking and accelerod tasks”