Environmental enrichment improves functional and neuropathological indices following stroke in young and aged rats

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 467-484

  Buchhold, B ^a   Mogoanta, L ^c   Suofu, Y ^a   Hamm, A ^a   Walker, L ^b   Kessler, Ch ^a   Popa Wagner, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY OF CRAIOVA   (Romania)

Author keywords

Aging; Environment; Ischemia; Rat; Recovery; Scar; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STROKE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42149145248     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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