Down-regulation of hippocampal BDNF and Arc associated with improvement in aversive spatial memory performance in socially isolated rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-80

  Pisu, Maria Giuseppina ^b   Dore, Riccardo ^a   Mostallino, Maria Cristina ^b   Loi, Manila ^a   Pibiri, Francesca ^a   Mameli, Roberta ^a   Cadeddu, Roberto ^a   Secci, Pietro Paolo ^a   Serra, Mariangela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arc; BDNF; Corticosterone; Forced swim test; Morris water maze; Social isolation; Sucrose preference

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOWN REGULATION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUGAR INTAKE; TRAINING; WEANING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; FOOD PREFERENCES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUCROSE; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; TRITIUM;

EID: 79953786265     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.021     Document Type: Article

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