Ovariectomy, a model of menopause in rodents, causes a premature aging of the nervous and immune systems

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 90-99

  Baeza, I ^a   De Castro, N M ^a   Gimenez Llort L ^b   De la Fuente, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Behavior; Chemotaxis; Lymphoproliferation; Natural killer activity; Ovariectomy

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MENOPAUSE; MOTOR COORDINATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; UTERUS WEIGHT; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

AGING; AGING, PREMATURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMOTAXIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HIGHER NERVOUS ACTIVITY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTES; MAZE LEARNING; MENOPAUSE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OVARIECTOMY; REFLEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77249105928     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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