Aging reduces total neuron number in the dorsal component of the rodent prefrontal cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1318-1326

  Stranahan, Alexis M ^a   Jiam, Nicole T ^a   Spiegel, Amy M ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; GAD67; Interneuron; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; STEREOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL AGING; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84856690726     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22790     Document Type: Article

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