Effects of prolonged agmatine treatment in aged male Sprague-Dawley rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 234, Issue , 2013, Pages 116-124

  Rushaidhi, M ^a   Zhang, H ^a   Liu, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ageing; Agmatine; Hippocampus; Nitric oxide synthase; Object recognition memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGMATINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; AGMATINE; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REVERSAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873502995     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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