Hippocampal nitric oxide synthase and arginase and age-associated behavioral deficits

Hippocampus

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 642-655

  Liu, Ping ^a   Smith, Paul F ^a   Appleton, Ian ^a   Darlington, Cynthia L ^a,b   Bilkey, David K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aging; Arginine; Learning; Memory; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ARGINASE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; ENDOTHELIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ARGINASE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 23844474754     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20085     Document Type: Article

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