Behavioural and glial changes in old rats following environmental enrichment

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-49

  Soffié, Monique ^a   Hahn, Kirstin ^a   Terao, Eriko ^a   Eclancher, Françoise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CENTRE DE NEUROCHIMIE   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Astrocytes; Environment; GFAP; Plasticity; Time discrimination; Working memory

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ENVIRONMENT; FRONTAL LOBE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROGLIA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033134637     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(98)00139-9     Document Type: Article

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