Septo-hippocampal cholinergic and neurotrophin markers in age-induced cognitive decline

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 351-361

  Sugaya, K ^a   Greene, R ^a   Personett, D ^a   Robbins, M ^a   Kent, C ^a   Bryan, D ^a   Skiba, E ^a   Gallagher, M ^b   Mckinney, Michael ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Immunoblotting; In situ hybridization histochemistry; Messenger RNA; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROMODULIN; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0031703711     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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