Age-related changes in polyamines in memory-associated brain structures in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 789-796

  Liu, P ^a   Gupta, N ^a   Jing, Y ^a   Zhang, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

hippocampus; parahippocampal region; prefrontal cortex; putrescine; spermidine; spermine

Indexed keywords

PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMORY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMORY; POLYAMINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 49249086117     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.06.033     Document Type: Article

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