Environmental enrichment alters nerve growth factor-induced gene A and glucocorticoid receptor messenger RNA expression after middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 527-535

  Dahlqvist, P ^a   Zhao, L ^b   Johansson, I M ^a   Mattsson, B ^b   Johansson, B B ^b   Seckl, J R ^c   Olsson, T ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enriched environment; Focal cerebral ischemia; Glucocorticoid receptors; NGFI A; Spontaneously hypertensive rats; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STROKE;

ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032787896     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00183-9     Document Type: Article

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