Cognitive impairment and morphological changes in the dorsal hippocampus of very old female rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 303, Issue , 2015, Pages 189-199

  Morel, G R ^a   Andersen, T ^a   Pardo, J ^a   Zuccolilli, G O ^a   Cambiaggi, V L ^a   Herenu C B ^a   Goya, R G ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Aging; Barnes maze; Doublecortin; Female spatial memory; GFAP; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARNES MAZE TEST; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ESCAPE BOX LATENCY; FEMALE; GOAL SECTOR PREFERENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOLE EXPLORATION FREQUENCY IN THE GOAL SECTOR; HOLE EXPLORATION FREQUENCY IN THE NONGOAL SECTOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MACROGLIA; MEAN VELOCITY; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROBLAST; NON GOAL HOLE EXPLORATION; NONHUMAN; PATH LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STEREOLOGY; STRATUM RADIATUM; TARGET SEEKING ACTIVITY; TOTAL EXPLORATORY ACTIVITY; ANIMAL; ASTROCYTE; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; COGNITION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84936972859     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.06.050     Document Type: Article

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