A decreased survival of proliferated cells in the hippocampus is associated with a decline in spatial memory in aged rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 399, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 171-174

  Wati, Henny ^a   Kudo, Koutaro ^a,b   Qiao, Chunxiang ^a   Kuroki, Toshihide ^c   Kanba, Shigenobu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Learning; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33646118726     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.01.056     Document Type: Article

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