Therapeutic effects of complex rearing or bFGF after perinatal frontal lesions

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 134-146

  Comeau, Wendy ^a   Gibb, Robbin ^a   Hastings, Erica ^a   Cioe, Jan ^b   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex housing; FGF 2; Golgi Cox; Prefrontal cortex; Recovery of function

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SHAM PROCEDURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT DURATION; WEANING; ANIMAL; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; DENDRITE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FRONTAL LOBE; INJURY; LONG EVANS RAT; MAZE TEST; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; ORIENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DENDRITES; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 41649088252     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20253     Document Type: Article

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