Early exercise promotes positive hippocampal plasticity and improves spatial memory in the adult life of rats

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 347-358

  Gomes da Silva, Sérgio ^a   Unsain, Nicolas ^b   Mascó, Daniel Hugo ^b   Toscano Silva, Michelle ^a   De Amorim, Henrique Alves ^a   Silva Araújo, Bruno Henrique ^a   Simões, Priscila Santos Rodrigues ^a   Da Graça Naffah Mazzacoratti, Maria ^a   Mortara, Renato Arruda ^a   Scorza, Fulvio Alexandre ^a   Cavalheiro, Esper Abrão ^a   Arida, Ricardo Mario ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Brain; Development; Exercise; Hippocampus; Memory; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPOMYOSIN RELATED KINASE B; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENCE; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL MOSSY FIBER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RUNNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL COUNT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOSSY FIBERS, HIPPOCAMPAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856082422     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20903     Document Type: Article

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