The N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor modulator GLYX-13 enhances learning and memory, in young adult and learning impaired aging rats

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 698-706

  Burgdorf, Jeffrey ^a   Zhang, Xiao lei ^b   Weiss, Craig ^c   Matthews, Elizabeth ^c   Disterhoft, John F ^c   Stanton, Patric K ^b   Moskal, Joseph R ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Eye blink conditioning; GLYX 13; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Morris water maze; Rat; T maze

Indexed keywords

GLYX 13; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; THREONYLPROLYPROLYLTHREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLINKING; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 79953060836     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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