Environmental enrichment upregulates micro-RNA-183 and alters acetylcholinesterase splice variants to reduce anxiety-like behavior in the little Indian field mouse (Mus booduga)

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 426-435

  Ragu Varman, Durairaj ^a   Marimuthu, Ganapathy ^b   Emmanuvel Rajan, Koilmani ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b MADURAI KAMARAJ UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Anxiety; Elevated plus maze; Environmental enrichment; MiR 183

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 183; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL SPECIES; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSING; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUS BOODUGA; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; STRESS; SYNAPSE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84872603825     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23165     Document Type: Article

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