Increased postsynaptic density protein-95 expression in the frontal cortex of aged cognitively impaired rats

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 237, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1331-1340

  Preissmann, Delphine ^a,b   Leuba, Geneviève ^a   Savary, Christine ^b   Vernay, André ^a   Kraftsik, Rudolf ^b   Riederer, Irène Monika ^a,b   Schenk, Françoise ^a,b   Riederer, Béat Michel ^a,b   Savioz, Armand ^c,d  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Children's Hospital HUG   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive impairment; Hippocampus; Individual difference; Prefrontal cortex; PSD 95 expression; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMORY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

RATTUS;

EID: 84871244136     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2012.012020     Document Type: Article

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