Functional degradation of extrastriate visual cortex in senescent rhesus monkeys

Neuroscience

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1023-1029

  Yu, S ^a   Wang, Y ^a,b   Li, X ^a   Zhou, Y ^a,c   Leventhal, A G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

aging; degradation; extrastriate cortex; rhesus monkeys; vision

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; MACACA; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISION, LOW; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33646810506     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.01.015     Document Type: Article

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