Environmental enrichment promotes plasticity and visual acuity recovery in adult monocular amblyopic rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Tognini, Paola ^a,b   Manno, Ilaria ^a   Bonaccorsi, Joyce ^a   Cenni, Maria Cristina ^b   Sale, Alessandro ^b   Maffei, Lamberto ^a,b  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 1;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMBLYOPIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; MONOCULAR VISION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

AMBLYOPIA; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; OPTIC NERVE INJURIES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VISION, MONOCULAR; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84859560887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0034815     Document Type: Article

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