Effects of aging on agmatine levels in memory-associated brain structures

Hippocampus

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 853-856

  Liu, Ping ^a,b   Chary, Sree ^a   Devaraj, Renuka ^a   Jing, Yu ^a   Darlington, Cynthia L ^a   Smith, Paul F ^a   Tucker, Ian G ^a   Zhang, Hu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aging; Agmatine; Hippocampus; L arginine; Learning

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGING; AGMATINE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 49249104771     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20448     Document Type: Article

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