Reciprocal changes in expression of mRMA for nerve growth factor and its receptors TrkA and LNGFR in brain of aged rats in relation to maze learning deficits

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 205-213

  Hasenohrl R U ^a   Soderstrom S ^b   Mohammed, A H ^c   Ebendal, T ^b   Huston, J P ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aging; Basal forebrain; Caudate putamen; Hippocampus; In situ hybridization; Learning; Low affinity NGF receptor; Nerve growth factor; Tyrosine receptor kinase

Indexed keywords

BRAIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031002012     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00005629     Document Type: Article

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