The sexual difference of aging-associated functional degradation in visual cortical cells of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 486, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-183

  Wang, Hao ^a   Chen, Bo ^a   Wang, Yongchang ^a,b   Zhou, Yifeng ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Aging; Rat; Sexual difference; Signal to noise ratio; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGRADATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CELL AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 78049377230     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.09.047     Document Type: Article

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