Learning deficits in aged rats related to decrease in extracellular volume and loss of diffusion anisotropy in hippocampus

Hippocampus

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 269-279

  Sykova E ^a,b   Mazel, T ^a,b   Hasenohrl R U ^c   Harvey, A R ^d   Simonova Z ^a,b   Mulders, W H A M ^d   Huston, J P ^e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Extrasynaptic transmission; Glycoproteins; Tortuosity; Volume fraction

Indexed keywords

TETRAMETHYLAMMONIUM;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DIFFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GEOMETRY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IONTOPHORESIS; LEARNING DISORDER; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MICROENVIRONMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANISOTROPY; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; DIFFUSION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FIBRONECTINS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; GLYCOPROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IONTOPHORESIS; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0036227364     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.1101     Document Type: Article

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