Continuous enriched environment improves learning and memory in adult NMRI mice through theta burst-related-LTP independent mechanisms but is not efficient in advanced aged animals

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 240-248

  Bouet, Valentine ^a   Freret, Thomas ^a   Dutar, Patrick ^b   Billard, Jean Marie ^b   Boulouard, Michel ^a  

^a Biology and Innovative Therapeutics for Ovarian Cancers group   (France)

^b CENTRE DE PSYCHIATRIE ET NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognitive impairment; Glutamate receptors; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THETA RHYTHM;

AGING; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 79957710286     PISSN: 00476374     EISSN: 18726216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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