Structural changes in the normally aging cerebral cortex of primates

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue , 2002, Pages 455-465

  Peters, Alan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL LOSS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MICROGLIA; MYELIN SHEATH; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SENILE PLAQUE; SYNAPSE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0036454716     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(02)36038-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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