Susceptibility to calcium dysregulation during brain aging

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages 1-13

  Kumar, Ashok ^a   Bodhinathan, Karthik ^a   Foster, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Calcium homeostasis; Cognitive impairments; Hippocampus; Intracellular calcium stores; N methyl D aspartate receptor; Voltage dependent calcium channels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897928763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16634365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.24.002.2009     Document Type: Review

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