Enriched environment exposure regulates excitability, synaptic transmission, and LTP in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 149-160

  Irvine, Gemma I ^a,b   Logan, Barbara ^a   Ecket, Michael ^a   Abraham, Wickliffe C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; E S potentiation; Experience induced plasticity; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRODE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMPLANTATION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RECORDING; SPIKE WAVE; STRESS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TETANUS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33645064559     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20142     Document Type: Article

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