Environmental enrichment inhibits spontaneous apoptosis, prevents seizures and is neuroprotective

Nature Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 448-453

  Young, Deborah ^b   Lawlor, Patricia A ^b   Leone, Paola ^a   Dragunow, Michael ^b   During, Matthew J ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTELLECT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENT; GLIAL CELL LINE-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; KAINIC ACID; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEIZURES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0032957382     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/7449     Document Type: Article

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