Correlation of cellular changes and spatial memory during aging in rats

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 929-938

  Jacobson, Laura ^a   Zhang, Rong ^a   Elliffe, Douglas ^b   Chen, Kuan Fei ^a   Mathai, Sam ^a   McCarthy, Di ^b   Waldvogel, Henry ^c   Guan, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Astrocytosis; Memory; Middle age and rats; Neuronal degeneration and plasticity; Pathological aging

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

RATTUS;

EID: 53249093604     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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