Enriched environment during adolescence changes brain-derived neurotrophic factor and TrkB levels in the rat visual system but does not offer neuroprotection to retinal ganglion cells following axotomy

Brain Research

Volumn 1095, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-11

  Franklin, Tamara B ^a   Murphy, Jeremy A ^a   Myers, Tanya L ^a   Clarke, David B ^a   Currie, R William ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BDNF; Enriched environment; TrkB; Visual system

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXOTOMY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL COUNT; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33744970260     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.04.025     Document Type: Article

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