A fine balance: Regulation of hippocampal Arc/Arg3.1 transcription, translation and degradation in a rat model of normal cognitive aging

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 115, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-67

  Fletcher, Bonnie R ^a   Hill, Gordon S ^a   Long, Jeffrey M ^a   Gallagher, Michela ^b   Shapiro, Matthew L ^c   Rapp, Peter R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Fishberg Department of Neuroscience   (United States)

Author keywords

Immediate early gene; Memory; Plasticity; Synapse

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARC GENE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COGNITION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84908362166     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.08.007     Document Type: Article

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