Impairments of synaptic plasticity in aged animals and in animal models of Alzheimer's disease

Rejuvenation Research

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 235-238

  Balietti, Marta ^a,b   Tamagnini, Francesco ^c   Fattoretti, Patrizia ^a,b   Burattini, Costanza ^c   Casoli, Tiziana ^a   Platano, Daniela ^d   Lattanzio, Fabrizia ^b   Aicardi, Giorgio ^c  

^a Neurobiology of Aging Laboratory   (Italy)

^b INRCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; MEMORY; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84860274585     PISSN: 15491684     EISSN: 15578577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/rej.2012.1318     Document Type: Review

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