Social isolation delays the positive effects of running on adult neurogenesis

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 526-533

  Stranahan, Alexis M ^a   Khalil, David ^a   Gould, Elizabeth ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOSTERONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RUNNING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645357517     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1668     Document Type: Article

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