Complementary activation of hippocampal-cortical subregions and immature neurons following chronic training in single and multiple context versions of the water maze

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 330-339

  Snyder, Jason S ^a   Clifford, Meredith A ^a   Jeurling, Sarah I ^a   Cameron, Heather A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Hippocampus; Immediate early gene; Memory; Neocortex; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; WATER MAZE; ZIF268 GENE;

ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS;

EID: 84855950187     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.06.025     Document Type: Article

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