Hippocampal neuron and synaptophysin-positive bouton number in aging C57BL/6 mice

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 599-606

  Calhoun, Michael E ^a   Kurth, Daniel ^a   Phinney, Amie L ^a   Long, Jeffrey M ^b   Hengemihle, John ^b   Mouton, Peter R ^b   Ingram, Donald K ^b   Jucker, Mathias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Behavior; Brain; CNS; Hippocampus; Maze learning; Memory; Mouse; Neurons; Stereology; Synapses; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032459615     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(98)00098-0     Document Type: Article

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