Sexual experience restores age-related decline in adult neurogenesis and hippocampal function

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 303-312

  Glasper, Erica R ^a   Gould, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Middle age; Object recognition; Sexual experience

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MATING; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

DENTATE GYRUS; MIDDLE AGE; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SEXUAL EXPERIENCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 84875493484     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22090     Document Type: Article

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