Environmental enrichment fails to rescue working memory deficits, neuron loss, and neurogenesis in APP/PS1KI mice

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 96-107

  Cotel, Marie Caroline ^a   Jawhar, Sadim ^a   Christensen, Ditte Z ^a   Bayer, Thomas A ^a   Wirths, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; Amyloid; Axonopathy; Behavior; Enriched environment; Intraneuronal A ; Neurogenesis; Neuron loss; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; AMYLOID PLAQUE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME OF DEATH; TREADMILL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; WILD TYPE; WORKING MEMORY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANIMALS; AXONS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 81355133149     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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