Seizure susceptibility and locus ceruleus activation are reduced following environmental enrichment in an animal model of epilepsy

Epilepsy and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-38

  Korbey, Samantha M ^a   Heinrichs, Stephen C ^a   Leussis, Melanie P ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

cFos; El mouse; Environment; Immediate early gene; Locus ceruleus; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EPILEPSY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCUS CERULEUS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENVIRONMENT; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); LOCUS COERULEUS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; SEIZURES;

EID: 37049027167     PISSN: 15255050     EISSN: 15255069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2007.09.013     Document Type: Article

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