Environmental enrichment induces synaptic structural modification after transient focal cerebral ischemia in rats

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 296-305

  Xu, Xiaohong ^a   Ye, Lingjing ^a   Ruan, Qin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Environmental enrichment; NMDA; PSD 95; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; NERVE PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEINS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; ANIMAL; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; ENVIRONMENT; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 63349108656     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0804-RM-128     Document Type: Article

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