Prevention of vision loss protects against age-related impairment in learning and memory performance in DBA/2J mice

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Wong, Aimée A ^a   Brown, Richard E ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aging; Glaucoma; Learning; Memory; Mice; Timoptic XE; Vision

Indexed keywords

TIMOLOL MALEATE; TIMOOPTIC XE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; INFANT; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84895811604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2013.00052     Document Type: Article

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