Fos imaging reveals ageing-related changes in hippocampal response to radial maze discrimination testing in mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 628-640

  Touzani, Khalid ^a,b   Marighetto, Aline ^a   Jaffard, Robert ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive ageing; Declarative relational memory; Immediate early gene; Long term retention; Short term retention

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEPTUM OF BRAIN;

EID: 0037327648     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02464.x     Document Type: Article

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