An enriched environment elevates corticosteroid receptor levels in the hippocampus and restores cognitive function in a rat model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 693-700

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhang, Junjian ^a   Sun, Huimin ^a   Zhu, Hong ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Yang, Ying ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion; Enriched environment; Glucocorticoid receptor; Learning and memory; Mineralocorticoid receptor

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN LEVEL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PERFUSION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84873396079     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2012.12.023     Document Type: Article

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