The effect of environmental enrichment on substantia nigra gene expression after traumatic brain injury in rats

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 259-270

  Shin, Samuel S ^a,b,c   Bales, James W ^a,b,c   Yan, Hong Q ^a,b,c   Kline, Anthony E ^a,b,c   Wagner, Amy K ^a,b,c   Lyons Weiler, James ^b   Dixon, C Edward ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dopamine; EE; microarray; TBI

Indexed keywords

ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALMODULIN; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; GROWTH ARREST SPECIFIC PROTEIN 7; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN 3; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); SOMATOMEDIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MUTATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; UPREGULATION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN INJURIES; CALCIUM SIGNALING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84874098545     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2012.2462     Document Type: Article

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