Environmental enrichment promotes robust functional and histological benefits in female rats after controlled cortical impact injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 247, Issue , 2013, Pages 410-418

  Monaco, Christina M ^a,b   Mattiola, Vincent V ^a,b   Folweiler, Kaitlin A ^a,b   Tay, Justin K ^a,b   Yelleswarapu, Narayana K ^a,b   Curatolo, Lauren M ^a,b   Matter, Ashley M ^a,b   Cheng, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Kline, Anthony E ^a,b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Controlled cortical impact; Environmental enrichment; Functional recovery; Learning and memory; Morris water maze; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MAZE TEST; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED CORTICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FUNCTIONAL RECOVERY; LEARNING AND MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURONS; POSTURAL BALANCE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84881376842     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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