Changes in brain nerve growth factor levels and nerve growth factor receptors in rats exposed to environmental enrichment for one year

Neuroscience

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 279-286

  Pham, T M ^a   Ickes, B ^b   Albeck, D ^b   Soderstrom S ^c   Granholm, A Ch ^b   Mohammed, A H ^a  

^a Occup Ther Elderly Care Res D ^*  (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Enriched environment; Middle aged rats; NGF; p75 receptor; trkA receptor

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GROWTH REGULATION; HOUSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; COGNITION; CORTICOSTERONE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0032862062     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00316-4     Document Type: Article

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