Effects of environmental enrichment on spatial memory and neurochemistry in middle-aged mice

Learning and Memory

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 187-198

  Frick, Karyn M ^a   Stearns, Nancy A ^b   Pan, Jing Yu ^b   Berger Sweeney, Joanne ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PARIETAL LOBE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 0037642406     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.50703     Document Type: Article

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