An enriched environment mitigates the brain-disruptive effects of prenatal diethylstilbestrol exposure in mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 223-228

  Soeda, F ^a   Tanaka, A ^a   Shirasaki, T ^a   Takahama, K ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Endocrine disrupter; Environmental enrichment; Learning and memory; Passive avoidance response; Phosphorylated CaM kinase II

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; DENTATE GYRUS; DIETHYLSTILBESTROL; ELECTROSHOCK; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 77953812154     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.04.047     Document Type: Article

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