1. Insulin-like growth factor-1 does not ameliorate the age-related decline in presumptive inhibitory synapses in layer 2 of rat sensorimotor cortex
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M. Constance Linville, Judy K. Brunso-Bechtold, Brandon Hollis Poe, and William E. Sonntag
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Male ,Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Central nervous system ,Stereology ,Biology ,Neurotransmission ,Cerebral Ventricles ,Synapse ,Central nervous system disease ,Insulin-like growth factor ,Reference Values ,Rats, Inbred BN ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Animals ,Infusions, Parenteral ,Insulin-Like Growth Factor I ,Saline ,Biological Psychiatry ,Neurons ,Pharmacology ,Growth factor ,Somatosensory Cortex ,Anatomy ,medicine.disease ,Rats, Inbred F344 ,Rats ,Endocrinology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Synapses - Abstract
Four old (29 months) Brown Norway×Fischer 344 (BN×F344) rats received intracerebroventricular infusion of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) and four middle-aged (18 months) and four old (29 months) rats received infusion of saline for 28 days. Sensorimotor cortex containing Layer 2 was blocked and processed for electron microscopy. Thin (700 A) and semithin (1 μm) sections were collected from the same anatomical space for quantification of synapses and neurons, respectively, using the physical disector. Numerical density (Nv) of presumptive inhibitory synapses in Layer 2 of sensorimotor cortex has been reported to decline with age Poe et al., 2001, Brunso-Bechtold et al. [Brain Res. 872 (2000) 125]. Infusion of IGF-1 did not affect the density of synapses or neurons when old IGF-1 animals were compared with old saline animals.
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- 2002
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