Life-long dietary restriction attenuates age-related increases in hippocampal glial fibrillary acidic protein mRNA

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 523-526

  Major, D E ^a   Kesslak, J P ^b   Cotman, C W ^b   Finch, C E ^c   Day, J R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; ApoJ; Astrocyte; Dietary restriction; GFAP; Hippocampus; In situ hybridization

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CLUSTERIN; DIET; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0030717684     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(97)00102-4     Document Type: Article

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