Heme Oxygenase-1 Activity as a Correlate to Exercise-Mediated Amelioration of Cognitive Decline and Neuropathological Alterations in an Aging Rat Model of Dementia

Figure 5

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy represented by Congo red staining (100x magnification). (a-b) Aged sedentary male and female brain sections under polarized light. The bright regions in the vessel walls marked by the black arrowheads can be identical to amyloid-like depositions. (c-d) Aged running male and female brain sections under polarized light. The black arrowheads are pointing to vessels containing lesser amount of amyloid-like depositions.

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