Age-related changes to layer 3 pyramidal cells in the rhesus monkey visual cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1454-1468

  Luebke, Jennifer I ^a,c   Medalla, Maria ^a   Amatrudo, Joseph M ^b   Weaver, Christina M ^c,d   Crimins, Johanna L ^b   Hunt, Brendan ^a   Hof, Patrick R ^b,c   Peters, Alan ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute   (United Kingdom)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

computational modeling; dendritic spines; electron microscopy; slice electrophysiology; synapses

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; COGNITION; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENSITY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RHESUS MONKEY; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISUAL MEMORY; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

BIOCYTIN; LYSINE;

AGING; ANIMALS; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITIC SPINES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; LYSINE; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84930362101     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht336     Document Type: Article

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