Early detection of age-related memory deficits in individual mice

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1881-1895

  Fouquet, C ^a   Petit, G H ^a   Auffret, A ^a   Gaillard, E ^a   Rovira, C ^a   Mariani, J ^a,b   Rondi Reig, L ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b HÔPITAL CHARLES FOIX   (France)

Author keywords

CA1 LTP; Cognitive deficit; Early detection; Middle age; Navigation; Spatial memory; Starmaze; Strategy

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 80051554146     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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