Reversal of glial and neurovascular markers of unhealthy brain aging by exercise in middle-aged female mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Latimer, Caitlin S ^a   Searcy, James L ^a   Bridges, Michael T ^a   Brewer, Lawrence D ^a   Popović, Jelena ^a   Blalock, Eric M ^a   Landfield, Philip W ^a   Thibault, Olivier ^a   Porter, Nada M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MYELIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CELL COUNT; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELL MATURATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSAL REACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE LEVEL; TISSUE STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; GLIA; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

MUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MICE; NEUROGLIA; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL;

EID: 80055028187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026812     Document Type: Article

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