Enrichment enhances the expression of sgk, a glucocorticoid-induced gene, and facilitates spatial learning through glutamate AMPA receptor mediation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2842-2852

  Lee, Eminy H Y ^a   Hsu, W L ^a   Ma, Y L ^a   Lee, P J ^a   Chao, C C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning learning; Glucocorticoid; NMDA receptor; Novel object recognition learning; Rat

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PLASMID DNA; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID INDUCIBLE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEAR; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SGK GENE; SPATIAL MEMORY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGENTS; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPACE PERCEPTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0348011919     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2003.03032.x     Document Type: Article

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