Acceleration of visual system development by environmental enrichment

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4840-4848

  Cancedda, Laura ^a   Putignano, Elena ^a   Sale, Alessandro ^a   Viegi, Alessandro ^a,b   Berardi, Nicoletta ^b,c   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

BDNF; CAMP CREB system; Environmental enrichment; GAD; Long term potentiation; LTP; Maternal care; VEP; Visual evoked potentials; Visual system development

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACCELERATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; LICKING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; ENVIRONMENT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; ISOENZYMES; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; OCULAR PHYSIOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 2442646486     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0845-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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