Age-dependent changes in dopaminergic projections from the substantia nigra pars compacta to the neostriatum

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 418, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-261

  Ishida, Yoshiyuki ^a,b   Okawa, Yayoi ^b   Ito, Sachiko ^a,b   Shirokawa, Tetsuya ^c   Isobe, Ken ichi ^a,b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR GERIATRICS AND GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NIHON FUKUSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Electrophysiology; F344 rat; Substantia nigra pars compacta

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NEOSTRIATUM; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; NEOSTRIATUM; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REACTION TIME; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

EID: 34247612317     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.031     Document Type: Article

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