Exposure to environmental enrichment prior to a cerebral cortex stab wound attenuates the postlesional astroglia response in rats

Neuron Glia Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2-4, 2011, Pages 163-175

  Lanosa, Ximena A ^a   Santacroce, Ignacio ^a   Colombo, Jorge A ^a  

^a CEMIC   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cortical injury; Enriched environment; Ezrin; Protective effects; Reactive GFAP astrocytes

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; EZRIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MACROGLIA; MALE; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; STAB WOUND; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ENVIRONMENT; GLIOSIS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VISUAL CORTEX; WOUNDS, STAB;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84871348415     PISSN: 1740925X     EISSN: 17410533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1740925X12000099     Document Type: Article

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