Environmental enrichment improves cognition in aged Alzheimer's transgenic mice despite stable β-amyloid deposition

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1751-1754

  Arendash, Gary W ^a,b   Garcia, Marcos F ^b   Costa, David A ^a,b   Cracchiolo, Jennifer R ^b   Wefes, Inge M ^b   Potter, H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid deposition; Alzheimer's disease; APPsw transgenic mice; Cognitive performance; Discriminant function analysis; Environmental enrichment

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC;

EID: 4043147336     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000137183.68847.4e     Document Type: Article

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