Morphological and cellular changes within embryonic striatal grafts associated with enriched environment and involuntary exercise

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3223-3233

  Döbrössy, Máté D ^a   Dunnett, Stephen B ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enriched environment; Graft plasticity; Involuntary exercise

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; QUINOLINIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC SPINE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MORPHOLOGY; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENDRITIC SPINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STEM CELLS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33845629441     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.05182.x     Document Type: Article

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