Morphological and molecular changes in aging rat prelimbic prefrontal cortical synapses

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 200-210

  Bloss, Erik B ^a   Puri, Rishi ^a   Yuk, Frank ^a   Punsoni, Michael ^a   Hara, Yuko ^a   Janssen, William G ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^b   Morrison, John H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Aging; Electron microscopy; Perforated synapse; Postembedding immunogold; Postsynaptic density; Prefrontal cortex; Structural plasticity; Synapse

Indexed keywords

LIM KINASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIM KINASES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; POST-SYNAPTIC DENSITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84868139334     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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