Exposure to Enriched Environment Improves Spatial Learning Performances and Enhances Cell Density but Not Choline Acetyltransferase Activity in the Hippocampus of Ventral Subicular-Lesioned Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 491-500

  Dhanushkodi, Anandh ^a   Bindu, B ^a   Raju, T R ^a   Kutty, Bindu M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

behavioral recovery; ChAT activity; enriched housing; neurodegeneration; subicular lesion

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL DENSITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34548819394     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.3.491     Document Type: Article

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