Cognitive stimulation during lifetime and in the aged phase improved spatial memory, and altered neuroplasticity and cholinergic markers of mice

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 831-838

  Baraldi, Ticiana ^a,b,c   Schöwe, Natália Mendes ^a,c   Balthazar, Janaina ^a,c   Monteiro Silva, Karla Cristina ^b,c   Albuquerque, Marilia Silva ^a,c   Buck, Hudson Sousa ^b,c   Viel, Tania Araujo ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS MÉDICAS DA SANTA CASA DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Research Group on Neuropharmacology of Aging   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aging; Cholinergic system; Enriched environment; Hippocampus; Neuroplasticity; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2;

AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CELL DENSITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL TASK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGING; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ENRICHED ENVIRONMENT; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROPLASTICITY; SPATIAL MEMORY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 84880175840     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: 18736815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2013.05.055     Document Type: Article

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