BDNF and learning: Evidence that instrumental training promotes learning within the spinal cord by up-regulating BDNF expression

Neuroscience

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 893-906

  Gomez Pinilla F ^a,b   Huie, J R ^c   Ying, Z ^b   Ferguson, A R ^d   Crown, E D ^e   Baumbauer, K M ^c   Edgerton, V R ^b   Grau, J W ^c  

^a UCLA Brain Injury Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CaMKII; exercise; memory; neurotrophin; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II; SYNAPSIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD; UPREGULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME INHIBITORS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPSINS; TEACHING; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34548677266     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2007.05.051     Document Type: Article

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