Chronic BDNF deficiency leads to an age-dependent impairment in spatial learning

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 120, Issue , 2015, Pages 52-60

  Petzold, Anne ^a   Psotta, Laura ^a   Brigadski, Tanja ^a,b   Endres, Thomas ^a   Lessmann, Volkmar ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Hippocampus; Spatial learning; TrkB receptor

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPATIAL LEARNING; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; DEFICIENCY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT;

EID: 84924891364     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.02.009     Document Type: Article

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