Aging-associated excess formaldehyde leads to spatial memory deficits

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tong, Zhiqian ^a,e   Han, Chanshuai ^a,d   Luo, Wenhong ^b   Li, Hui ^b   Luo, Hongjun ^a,d   Qiang, Min ^a,d   Su, Tao ^a,d   Wu, Beibei ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Yang, Xu ^c   Wan, You ^e   Cui, Dehua ^e   He, Rongqiao ^a,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT; DNA (CYTOSINE 5 ) METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE 1; FORMALDEHYDE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISINFECTANTS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84877751657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01807     Document Type: Article

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