Environmental enrichment improves recent but not remote memory in association with a modified brain metabolic activation profile in adult mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 22-29

  Leger, Marianne ^a   Bouet, Valentine ^a   Freret, Thomas ^a   Darmaillacq, Anne Sophie ^a   Dacher, Matthieu ^a   Dauphin, François ^a   Boulouard, Michel ^a   Schumann Bard, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase; Environmental enrichment; Frontal cortex; Neuronal network; Passive avoidance; Recent and remote memory

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, OUTBRED STRAINS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICE;

EID: 83655169843     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.11.022     Document Type: Article

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