Homocysteine, neural atrophy, and the effect of caloric restriction in rhesus monkeys

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 670-680

  Willette, Auriel A ^a,b,c   Gallagher, Catherine ^b,d   Bendlin, Barbara B ^b,d   McLaren, Donald G ^a,b,d   Kastman, Erik K ^b,d   Canu, Elisa ^d   Kosmatka, Kris J ^b,d   Field, Aaron S ^a   Alexander, Andrew L ^c   Colman, Ricki J ^e   Voytko, Mary Lou L ^f   Weindruch, Richard H ^b,e   Coe, Christopher L ^a,c   Johnson, Sterling C ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d WILLIAM S MIDDLETON MEMORIAL VETERANS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^f WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Caloric restriction; Diffusion tensor imaging; Homocysteine; Neural atrophy; Primate; Rhesus monkey; Voxel based morphometry

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

AGED; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SIZE; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPLENIUM OF THE CORPUS CALLOSUM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE;

EID: 84856971748     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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