Aging impairs the control of prefrontal cortex on the release of corticosterone in response to stress and on memory consolidation

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 827.e1-827.e9

  Garrido, Pedro ^a   de Blas, Marta ^a   Giné, Elena ^a   Santos, Ángel ^a   Mora, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Inhibitory avoidance; Microinjection; Muscimol; Picrotoxin; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCIMOL; PICROTOXIN;

ACUTE STRESS; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DORSOMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; EMOTIONALITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 84856976218     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.06.011     Document Type: Article

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