Age-related decline of presumptive inhibitory synapses in the sensorimotor cortex as revealed by the physical disector

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 439, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 65-72

  Christofi, Fievos L ^a,b   Zhang, Huiming ^a   Yu, Jun Ge ^a   Guzman, Jorge ^a   Xue, Jianjing ^a   Kim, Minsoo ^a   Wang, Y Z ^a   Cooke, Helen J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Quantitative anatomy; Stereology; Synaptic vesicles; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0035829142     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.1335     Document Type: Article

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