Di Stefano Giuseppina, Casoli Tiziana, Fattoretti Patrizia, Balietti Marta, Grossi Yessica, Giorgetti Belinda, Bertoni-Freddari Carlo
INRCA Research Department, Neurobiology of Aging Laboratory, Ancona, Italy.
Rejuvenation Res. 2006 Spring;9(1):94-8. doi: 10.1089/rej.2006.9.94.
Optical density of MAP2 immunoreactivity (OD), the ratio between the MAP2 stained area/total test area (area fraction: AF), the total length of MAP2 labeled profiles (TL) and the ratio perimeter/area of the immunostained profiles (pleomorphism index [PI]) were measured by quantitative immunohistochemistry in the brain of rats of different ages. In old rats versus young and adult animals, OD and AF were significantly lower, whereas PI was significantly higher, in dentate gyrus molecular layer, CA1 stratum radiatum and olfactory bulb. These findings lend support to the many converging results on the higher vulnerability to aging of the CNS areas featuring higher plasticity.
