Influence of late-life exposure to environmental enrichment or exercise on hippocampal function and CA1 senescent physiology

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 828.e1-828.e17

  Kumar, Ashok ^a   Rani, Asha ^a   Tchigranova, Olga ^a   Lee, Wei Hua ^a   Foster, Thomas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Afterhyperpolarization; Aging; Cell excitability; Enrichment; Exercise; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SENESCENCE; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84856957321     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2011.06.023     Document Type: Article

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