Exercise during pregnancy increases hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor mRNA expression and spatial learning in neonatal rat pup

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 352, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-48

  Parnpiansil, Panaree ^a   Jutapakdeegul, Nuanchan ^a   Chentanez, Thyon ^b   Kotchabhakdi, Naiphinich ^a  

^a MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor mRNA; Hippocampus; Prenatal exercise; Semiquantitative RT PCR; Spatial learning; T maze

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MATERNAL CARE; MAZE TEST; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAINING; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 0242711665     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.08.023     Document Type: Article

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