Chronic treatment with a precursor of cellular phosphatidylcholine ameliorates morphological and behavioral effects of aging in the rat hippocampus

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1019, Issue , 2004, Pages 41-43

  Crespo, D ^a,b   Megias, M ^a   Fernandez Viadero, C ^a   Verduga, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CDP choline; Hippocampus; Memory; Mice; Stereolog

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CITICOLINE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BEHAVIOR; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3242686020     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1297.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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