Effects of diet and/or exercise in enhancing spinal cord sensorimotor learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Joseph, M Selvan ^a   Ying, Zhe ^a   Zhuang, Yumei ^a   Zhong, Hui ^a   Wu, Aiguo ^a   Bhatia, Harsharan S ^a   Cruz, Rusvelda ^a   Tillakaratne, Niranjala J K ^a   Roy, Roland R ^a   Edgerton, V Reggie ^a,b   Gomez Pinilla, Fernando ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CERVONIC ACID; CURCUMIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MOLECULAR MARKER; SYNTAXIN; SYNTAXIN 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; CURCUMIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DIET; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS; LEARNING; MALE; MICE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QA-SNARE PROTEINS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

MUS;

EID: 84864076259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041288     Document Type: Article

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