Primate aging in the mammalian scheme: The puzzle of extreme variation in brain aging

Age

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1075-1091

  Finch, Caleb E ^a   Austad, Steven N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer disease; Animal husbandry; Brain aging; Neuropathology; Primate life histories; Primates

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-40]; AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN[1-42]; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; APE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BINDING SITE; BODY SIZE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LOSS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; DNA SEQUENCE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLORHINI; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFECTION CONTROL; LEARNING; LEMURIDAE; LIFE EXTENSION; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY DEVELOPMENTAL AGE; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RHESUS MONKEY; RODENT; SEXUAL MATURITY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT; SUBSTITUTION LINE; TAUOPATHY; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; PRIMATES;

EID: 84867572655     PISSN: 01619152     EISSN: 15744647     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11357-011-9355-9     Document Type: Article

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