Spatial memory is improved by aerobic and resistance exercise through divergent molecular mechanisms

Neuroscience

Volumn 202, Issue , 2012, Pages 309-317

  Cassilhas, R C ^a,b   Lee, K S ^b   Fernandes, J ^b   Oliveira, M G M ^b   Tufik, S ^b   Meeusen, R ^c   De Mello, M T ^a,b  

^a Psychobiology and Exercise Research Center   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Memory; Physical exercise; Spatial learning; Water maze

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; PROTEIN KINASE B; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CORTICOSTERONE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; ONCOGENE PROTEIN V-AKT; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, IGF TYPE 1; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPACE PERCEPTION; SYNAPSINS;

EID: 84856216579     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.11.029     Document Type: Article

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