text: 24379110_7	49 male Wistar rats were divided into seven equal groups (1-control, without surgery, received water), 2-AD (bilateral NBM lesion, received water), 3 and 4-AD  +  ZJ (NBM bilateral lesion, received ZJ extract 500 and 1,000  mg/kg b.w. per day for 15  days), 5-sham (surgery: electrode introduced into NBM without lesion, received water), 6 and 7-without surgery and lesion, received ZJ extract-the same as groups 3 and 4).