'When an old rat smells a cat': A decline in defense-related, but not accessory olfactory, Fos expression in aged rats

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 737-749

  Hunt, Glenn E ^a   Van Nieuwenhuijzen, Petra S ^a   Chan Ling, Tailoi ^a   McGregor, Iain S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Amygdala; Anxiety; C Fos; Cat odor; Emergence; Predator stress; Prelimbic cortex; Premammillary nucleus; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS;

AGED; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WISTAR RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79953035571     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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