Exercise improves cognitive responses to psychological stress through enhancement of epigenetic mechanisms and gene expression in the dentate gyrus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Collins, Andrew ^a   Hill, Louise E ^a   Chandramohan, Yalini ^a   Whitcomb, Daniel ^a   Droste, Susanne K ^a   Reul, Johannes M H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EPIGENETICS; EXERCISE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; RAT; SLEEP; SWIMMING;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENTATE GYRUS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; HISTONES; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 63049117086     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004330     Document Type: Article

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