Environmental enrichment mitigates the effects of basal forebrain lesions on cognitive flexibility

Neuroscience

Volumn 154, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 444-453

  De Bartolo, P ^a,b   Leggio, M G ^a,b   Mandolesi, L ^a,c   Foti, F ^a,b   Gelfo, F ^a,c   Ferlazzo, F ^b   Petrosini, L ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; cholinergic damage; cognitive impairment; cognitive reserve; plasticity

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROSENCEPHALON; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; SERIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 46549086941     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.03.069     Document Type: Article

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