Enrichment enhances spatial memory and increases synaptophysin levels in aged female mice

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 615-626

  Frick, Karyn M ^a   Fernandez, Stephanie M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ELISA; Environmental enrichment; Frontoparietal cortex; Hippocampus; Spatial reference memory; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0037411533     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(02)00138-0     Document Type: Article

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