Intervention with environmental enrichment after experimental brain trauma enhances cognitive recovery in male but not female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 334, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 165-168

  Wagner, Amy K ^a   Kline, Anthony E ^a   Sokoloski, Joshua ^a   Zafonte, Ross D ^a   Capulong, Edwin ^a   Dixon, C Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive recovery; Controlled cortical impact; Environmental enrichment; Gender; Spatial memory; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037121564     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01103-5     Document Type: Article

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