Dendritic proliferation in the aging brain as a compensatory repair mechanism

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 70, Issue C, 1986, Pages 227-237

  Coleman, P D ^a   Flood, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REVIEW; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; DENDRITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MICE; MIDDLE AGED; RATS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0022854722     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)64307-1     Document Type: Article

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