Enriched Environment Increases the Myelinated Nerve Fibers of Aged Rat Corpus Callosum

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 999-1005

  Zhao, Yuan Yu ^a   Shi, Xiao Yan ^a   Qiu, Xuan ^a   Lu, Wei ^a   Yang, Shu ^a   Li, Chen ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Cheng, Guo Hua ^a   Tang, Yong ^a  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aged rat; Corpus callosum; Enriched environment; Myelinated fiber; Stereology

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; FEMALE; LEARNING; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STEREOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CORPUS CALLOSUM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MAZE LEARNING; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SWIMMING;

RATTUS;

EID: 84862791493     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22446     Document Type: Article

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