Modeling brain reserve: Experience-dependent neuronal plasticity in healthy and huntingtonĝ€™s disease transgenic mice

American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 196-209

  Nithianantharajah, Jess ^a,b   Barkus, Christopher ^a,c   Vijiaratnam, Nirosen ^e   Clement, Olivier ^a,d   Hannan, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^e Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ^*

Author keywords

Dendritic spines; Environmental enrichment; Structural plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL DENSITY; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSE; WILD TYPE;

EID: 67649249884     PISSN: 10647481     EISSN: 15457214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JGP.0b013e318196a632     Document Type: Article

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