Aging impairs hippocampus-dependent long-term memory for object location in mice

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2220-2224

  Wimmer, Mathieu E ^a   Hernandez, Pepe J ^a   Blackwell, Jennifer ^a   Abel, Ted ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Hippocampus; Mice; Object recognition; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84863487053     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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