Behavioural parameters in aged rats are related to LTP and gene expression of ChAT and NMDA-NR2 subunits in the striatum

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1373-1383

  Schulz, D ^a   Sergeeva, O A ^a   Ianovskii, E ^b   Luhmann, H J ^c   Haas, H L ^a   Huston, J P ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exploratory activity; Learning; Memory; mRNA; Synaptic plasticity; Water maze

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID NR2; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 1642267300     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03234.x     Document Type: Article

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