Age-related changes in metabolic profiles of rat hippocampus and cortices

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1063-1073

  Paban, Véronique ^a   Fauvelle, Florence ^b   Alescio Lautier, Béatrice ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b Laboratoire de RMN   (France)

Author keywords

Frontal cortex; Hippocampus; HRMAS NMR; JMRUI; Parietal cortex; Rhinal cortex

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; CHOLINE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCEROPHOSPHORYLCHOLINE; INOSITOL; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; TAURINE;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN METABOLISM; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; METABOLOME; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77949556929     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07126.x     Document Type: Article

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