Decreased proportion of GABA neurons accompanies age-related degradation of neuronal function in cat striate cortex

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 119-125

  Hua, Tianmiao ^a,b,c   Kao, Chuanchao ^b   Sun, Qingyan ^b   Li, Xiangrui ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^a,d  

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

^b ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

GABA immunoreactive neurons; GABAergic inhibition; Morphology; Old cats; Primary visual cortex; Young adult cats

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CAT; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA DEGENERATION; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATS; CELL COUNT; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 37349048479     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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