Evidence for involvement of glucocorticoid response in the hippocampal changes in aged molarless SAMP8 mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 131, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 125-129

  Onozuka, Minoru ^a,b   Watanabe, Kazuko ^a   Fujita, Masafumi ^a   Tonosaki, Keiichi ^a   Saito, Shigeru ^c  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA DENTAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c Business Center for Academic Societies of Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Neuronal death; SAMP8 mice; Spatial memory; Stress; Tooth dysfunction

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; METYRAPONE;

AGED; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DARKNESS; ESCAPE REACTION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT; METYRAPONE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOLAR; SWIMMING;

EID: 0037061548     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(01)00378-3     Document Type: Article

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