Environmental enrichment influences survival rate and enhances exploration and learning but produces variable responses to the radial maze in old rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 564-578

  Bell, J A ^a   Livesey, P J ^b   Meyer, J F ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aging; Emotion; Enrichment; Hippocampus; Learning; Radial maze; Rat

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 70350527304     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20394     Document Type: Article

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