Age-related changes in levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in selected brain regions of rats, normal mice and senescence-accelerated mice: A comparison to those of nerve growth factor and neurotrophin-3

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-234

  Katoh Semba, Ritsuko ^a   Semba, Reiji ^b   Takeuchi, Ikuo K ^a   Kato, Kanefusa ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Nerve growth factor; Neurotrophin 3

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STAINING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROTROPHIN 3; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0031709896     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(98)00040-6     Document Type: Article

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