Antidepressant and proneurogenic influence of environmental enrichment in mice: Protective effects VS recovery

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2460-2468

  Llorens Martín, María ^a   Tejeda, Gonzalo S ^a   Trejo, José L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

adult hippocampal neurogenesis; cell survival; doublecortin; environmental enrichment; learned helplessness; Porsolt test

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80054717995     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.134     Document Type: Article

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