Aqueous Extract of Black Maca (Lepidium meyenii) on Memory Impairment Induced by Ovariectomy in Mice

Table 1

Latency (s) in OVX mice treated with black maca during the step-down avoidance test.

Treatment	Dose	Number of errors	Step-down latency(s)
Native control	—	2.44 ± 0.73* [9]	93.33 ± 26.30* [9]
Sham control	—	2.11 ± 0.95* [10]	124.85 ± 34.81* [10]
OVX control	—	9.44 ± 2.15 [9]	29.69 ± 5.65 [9]
Aqueous extract of Black Maca	0.50 g/kg	3.67 ± 0.87* [10]	106.07 ± 23.21* [10]
	2.00 g/kg	4.37 ± 0.68* [10]	73.43 ± 13.89* [10]

Number of mice per group is in parenthesis.
* P < .05 versus OVX control.