Effects of enriched environments with different durations and starting times on learning capacity during aging in rats assessed by a refined procedure of the Hebb-Williams maze task

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 340-346

  Kobayashi, Satoru ^a   Ohashi, Yasushi ^b   Ando, Susumu ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

^b SHUKUTOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain plasticity; Enriched environment; Hebb Williams maze task; Learning and memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; LEARNING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SENSORY DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0037010310     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.10442     Document Type: Article

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