Mid-life stress and cognitive deficits during early aging in rats: Individual differences and hippocampal correlates

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 128-140

  Sandi, Carmen ^a,b   Touyarot, Katia ^b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Glucocorticoid receptor; Glucocorticoids; Hippocampus; Individual differences; L1; Learning; Memory; Mineralocorticoid receptor; NCAM; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; ISOPROTEIN; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE;

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 27744547500     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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