Maintenance of enriched environment-induced changes of auditory spatial sensitivity and expression of GABAA, NMDA, and AMPA receptor subunits in rat auditory cortex

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 452-460

  Cai, Rui ^a   Zhou, Xiaoming ^a   Guo, Fei ^a   Xu, Jinghong ^a   Zhang, Jiping ^a   Sun, Xinde ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Auditory spatial sensitivity; Enriched environment; GABAA receptor; Maintenance; NMDA receptor

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA1; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR ALPHA3; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR BETA3; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B;

ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ENVIRONMENT; LIGAND-GATED ION CHANNELS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78149412186     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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