Environmental enrichment in mice decreases anxiety, attenuates stress responses and enhances natural killer cell activity

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1341-1347

  Benaroya Milshtein, N ^a   Hollander, N ^a   Apter, A ^a   Kukulansky, T ^a   Raz, N ^a   Wilf, A ^a   Yaniv, I ^a   Pick, C G ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Elevated plus maze; Enriched environment; NK; Staircase

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FREEZING; FUNCTION TEST; GRIP STRENGTH; HOST RESISTANCE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; ENVIRONMENT; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 4544344733     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03587.x     Document Type: Article

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