Premature Aging Phenotype in Mice Lacking High-Affinity Nicotinic Receptors: Region-Specific Changes in Layer v Pyramidal Cell Morphology

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 2138-2148

  Konsolaki, Eleni ^a   Skaliora, Irini ^a  

^a BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (Greece)

Author keywords

aging; anterior cingulate cortex; primary visual cortex; selective vulnerability; 2 nAChR

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA2; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; GENOTYPE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE AGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; STRIATE CORTEX; AGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; C57BL MOUSE; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; AGING, PREMATURE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC;

EID: 84938579785     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu019     Document Type: Article

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