FIGURE 8.

Effects of Rasa-sindoor intervention on cerebral metabolic rates of glucose oxidation (CMR_Glc(ox)): (A) Total, (B) Glutamatergic Neurons, and (C) GABAergic neurons in the cerebral cortex, hippocampus and striatum in AlCl₃ treated mice. Mice were infused with [1,6-¹³C₂]glucose for 10 min. The CMR_Glc(ox) was calculated based on the ¹³C labeled trapped into different amino acids using Equations 1–3 as described in the Methods section. Values are presented as mean ± SEM. ^∗p = 0.01, ^∗∗p = 0.001. The number of mice used in different groups were: Control + CMC (n = 7); Control + RS (n = 5); AlCl₃ + CMC (n = 6) and AlCl₃ + RS (n = 5).