Myelination of the corpus callosum in male and female rats following complex environment housing during adulthood

Brain Research

Volumn 1288, Issue , 2009, Pages 9-17

  Markham, Julie A ^a   Herting, Megan M ^a   Luszpak, Agatha E ^a   Juraska, Janice M ^a   Greenough, William T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

EC; Electron microscopy; Enrichment; Genu; Sex difference; Splenium

Indexed keywords

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENU; GLIA CELL; HISTOLOGY; HOUSING; MALE; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SPLENIUM; STEREOMETRY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AXONS; CELL COUNT; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROGLIA; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 69049099851     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.06.087     Document Type: Article

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