Peptide immunoreactivity in aged rat cortex and Hippocampus as a function of memory and BDNF infusion

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 625-635

  Croll, Susan D ^a   Chesnutt, Catherine R ^a   Greene, Nefertiti A ^a   Lindsay, Ronald M ^a   Wiegand, Stanley J ^a  

^a REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; BDNF; Cholecystokinin; Cortex; Dynorphin; Hippocampus; Memory; Neuropeptide Y; Neurotrophin; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHOLECYSTOKININ; DYNORPHIN; DYNORPHIN A; NEUROTROPHIN; SOMATOSTATIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL COUNT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLECYSTOKININ; DYNORPHINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032855058     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(99)00122-7     Document Type: Article

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