Neuroprotective effects of anti-aging oriental medicine Lycium barbarum against beta-amyloid peptide neurotoxicity.

Experimental Gerontology. 2005 Aug-Sep;40(8-9):716-27
Yu MS, Leung SK, Lai SW, Che CM, Zee SY, So KF, Yuen WH, Chang RC

Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department of Anatomy, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

“As aged population dramatically increases in these decades, efforts should be made on the intervention for curing age-associated neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Natural plant extracts of Lycium barbarum [Goji] are well-known to exhibit anti-aging effects.”