title: Membrane elasticity of mouse dorsal root ganglion neurons decreases with aging.
abstract: Elastic area compressibility modulus (EACM) method was applied to measure the membrane elasticity of cultured dorsal root ganglion neurons from fetal and 3-month-old mice. The values of the EACM were 21.3 dyn/cm in 3-month-old neurons and 2.8 dyn/cm in fetal neurons. These results indicate that neural cell membrane elasticity decreases with aging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Yokohama City University, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Horie
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ikuta
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takenaka
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000502:physiology*; D004548:Elasticity; D005727:Ganglia, Spinal / Q000196:embryology / Q000502:physiology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D051379:Mice; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*