Involvement of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in age-related memory decline

Brain Research Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 236-249

  Foster, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Neural plasticity; Rodent

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

AGE; AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGING; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032737984     PISSN: 01650173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0173(99)00017-X     Document Type: Review

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