The impact of environmental enrichment on sex-specific neurochemical circuitries - Effects on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and the serotonergic system

Neuroscience

Volumn 220, Issue , 2012, Pages 267-276

  Chourbaji, S ^a   Hortnagl H ^b   Molteni, R ^c   Riva, M A ^c   Gass, P ^a   Hellweg, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

BDNF; Enrichment; Mice; Neurotrophins; Serotonin; Sex

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EMOTIONAL PHENOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84864742755     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.06.016     Document Type: Article

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