Effects of enriched physical and social environments on motor performance, associative learning, and hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Madroñal, Noelia ^a   López Aracil, Cristina ^a   Rangel, Alejandra ^a   del Río, José A ^b   Delgado García, José M ^b   Gruart, Agnès ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EYELID REFLEX; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ROTAROD TEST; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGENESIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST;

EID: 77956194308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011130     Document Type: Article

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