Improved spatial learning in aged rats by genetic activation of protein kinase C in small groups of hippocampal neurons

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 413-423

  Zhang, Guo Rong ^a   Liu, Meng ^a   Cao, Haiyan ^a   Kong, Lingxin ^a   Wang, Xiaodan ^a   O'Brien, Jennifer A ^a   Wu, Shuo Chieh ^a   Cook, Robert G ^b   Geller, Alfred I ^a,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged rats; Dentate granule neurons; Herpes simplex virus vector; Protein kinase C; Spatial discrimination

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VECTORS; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 66049123115     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20506     Document Type: Article

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