Altered synaptic dynamics during normal brain aging

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 4094-4104

  Mostany, Ricardo ^a   Anstey, James E ^a   Crump, Kerensa L ^a   Maco, Bohumil ^b   Knott, Graham ^b   Portera Cailliau, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84874642887     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4825-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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