Environmental enrichment: Aging and memory

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 491-500

  Patel, Toral Rohit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Environmental enrichment; HDAC inhibitors; Histone acetylation; Learning and memory; Neurodegenerative diseases

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EPIGENETICS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LONG TERM MEMORY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYLATION; AGING; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HISTONES; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84871557272     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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