The length of hippocampal cholinergic fibers is reduced in the aging brain

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1666-1679

  Ypsilanti, Athéna Rebecca ^a,b   Girão da Cruz, M Teresa ^a,b   Burgess, Alison ^a,b   Aubert, Isabelle ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Choline acetyltransferase; Cholinergic axons; Cholinergic neurons; Hippocampus; Medial septal nucleus; Nerve growth factor; Optical fractionator probe; p75 neurotrophin receptor; Septohippocampal pathway; Spherical probe; Stereology; Synaptophysin; Tropomyosin related kinase receptor A; Tropomyosin related kinase receptor B

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN RELATED KINASE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 51449106987     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.04.001     Document Type: Article

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