The impact of voluntary exercise on mental health in rodents: A neuroplasticity perspective

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 42-60

  Pietropaolo, Susanna ^a   Sun, Yan ^b   Li, Ruixi ^b   Brana, Corinne ^a   Feldon, Joram ^a   Yee, Benjamin K ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Exercise; Housing; Sex differences; Wheel

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; RUNNING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BRAIN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERTION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MENTAL DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SENILE PLAQUES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VOLITION;

EID: 44549087761     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.03.014     Document Type: Article

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