Successful cognitive aging in rats: A role for mGluR5 glutamate receptors, homer 1 proteins and downstream signaling pathways

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ménard, Caroline ^a   Quirion, Rémi ^a  

^a DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN HOMER 1A; PROTEIN HOMER 1B; PROTEIN HOMER 1C; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA; CARRIER PROTEIN; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN HOMER;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; COGNITION; GENETICS; LONG EVANS RAT; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COGNITION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SWIMMING;

EID: 84855433975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028666     Document Type: Article

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