Environmental Enrichment Enhances Episodic-Like Memory in Association with a Modified Neuronal Activation Profile in Adult Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Leger, Marianne ^a   Quiedeville, Anne ^a   Paizanis, Eleni ^a   Natkunarajah, Sharuja ^a   Freret, Thomas ^a   Boulouard, Michel ^a   Schumann Bard, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CELL ACTIVATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EPISODIC MEMORY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAZE TEST; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; RECOGNITION;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867733933     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048043     Document Type: Article

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