Age-related deficits in a forebrain-dependent task, trace-eyeblink conditioning

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1915-1922

  Galvez, Roberto ^a   Cua, Sabrina ^a   Disterhoft, John F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Barrel cortex; Hippocampus; PNBSF; Somatosensory; Whisker

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIBRISSA;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, EYELID; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ELECTROSHOCK; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; RABBITS; REACTION TIME; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 80051561101     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.11.014     Document Type: Article

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