Juvenile male rats display lower cortical metabolic capacity than females

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 440, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 255-259

  Spivey, Jaclyn M ^a   Colorado, Rene A ^a   Conejo Jimenez, Nelida ^b   Gonzalez Pardo, Hector ^b   Gonzalez Lima, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

ADHD; Adolescence; Brain metabolism; Cytochrome oxidase; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL RESPIRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLIC CAPACITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 45849116862     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.05.104     Document Type: Article

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