Age-related impairments in memory and in CREB and pCREB expression in hippocampus and amygdala following inhibitory avoidance training

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 291-299

  Morris, Ken A ^a   Gold, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; CREB; Hippocampus; Inhibitory avoidance; Memory

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL AMYGDALA; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84861234888     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: 18726216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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