Barriers to developing a valid rodent model of Alzheimer's disease: From behavioural analysis to etiological mechanisms

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue JUN, 2015, Pages

  Gidyk, Darryl C ^a   Deibel, Scott H ^a   Hong, Nancy S ^a   McDonald, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ageing; Alzheimer's disease; Cognition; Dementia; Hippocampus; Memory; Neurodegeneration; Rodent model

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RODENT MODEL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

EID: 84935062761     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00245     Document Type: Article

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