Gene expression changes in the course of normal brain aging are sexually dimorphic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 40, 2008, Pages 15605-15610

  Berchtold, Nicole C ^a   Cribbs, David H ^a,b   Coleman, Paul D ^c,d   Rogers, Joseph ^d   Head, Elizabeth ^a,b   Kim, Ronald ^a   Beach, Tom ^d   Miller, Carol ^e   Troncoso, Juan ^f   Trojanowski, John Q ^g   Zielke, H Ronald ^h   Cotman, Carl W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d SUN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Microarray; Sex differences; Superior frontal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBICULUM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 55749105400     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806883105     Document Type: Article

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