Brief novelty exposure facilitates dentate gyrus LTP in aged rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 835-843

  Sierra Mercado, Demetrio ^a,b   Dieguez Jr , Dario ^a,c   Barea Rodriguez, Edwin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hippocampus; In vivo; Novel environment; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; LONGEVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 50249180388     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20447     Document Type: Article

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