Ageing alters behavioural function and brain arginine metabolism in male Sprague-Dawley rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 226, Issue , 2012, Pages 178-196

  Gupta, N ^a   Jing, Y ^a   Collie, N D ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Liu, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ageing; Hippocampus; L arginine metabolites; Memory; Parahippocampal region; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AGMATINE; ARGINASE; ARGININE; CITRULLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORNITHINE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

AGED; AGING; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ARGINASE; ARGININE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CUES; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84867318102     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.09.013     Document Type: Article

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