Environmental enrichment alters locomotor behaviour and ventricular volume in Mecp21lox mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 44-48

  Nag, Nupur ^a   Moriuchi, Jennifer M ^a   Peitzman, Cassandra G K ^a   Ward, Bonnie C ^a   Kolodny, Nancy H ^a   Berger Sweeney, Joanne E ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Brain volume; Environmental enrichment; Mecp2; MRI; Rett syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEAR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETT SYNDROME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEANING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; METHYL-CPG-BINDING PROTEIN 2; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUTATION; RETT SYNDROME;

EID: 56549105433     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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