Synaptic correlates of memory and menopause in the hippocampal dentate gyrus in rhesus monkeys

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 421.e17-421.e28

  Hara, Yuko ^a   Park, C Sehwan ^a   Janssen, William G M ^a   Roberts, Mary T ^b   Morrison, John H ^a   Rapp, Peter R ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed nonmatching to sample; Disector method; Estrogen; Hippocampus; Menopause; Outer molecular layer; Perforated synapse; Postsynaptic density; Recognition memory

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENSITY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MENOPAUSE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SYNAPSE;

EID: 82755162066     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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