Spatial behavior and seizure-induced changes in c-fos mRNA expression in young and old rats

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1184-1198

  Chawla, Monica K ^a   Penner, Marsha R ^b   Olson, Kathy M ^a   Sutherland, Vicki L ^c   Mittelman Smith, Melinda A ^d   Barnes, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Immediate early genes; Learning and memory; Seizures; Synaptic plasticity; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEIZURE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RNA, MESSENGER; SEIZURES; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84872312835     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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