Exercise and sodium butyrate transform a subthreshold learning event into long-term memory via a brain-derived neurotrophic factor-dependent mechanism

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2027-2034

  Intlekofer, Karlie A ^a   Berchtold, Nicole C ^a   Malvaez, Melissa ^a   Carlos, Anthony J ^a   McQuown, Susan C ^a   Cunningham, Michael J ^b   Wood, Marcelo A ^a   Cotman, Carl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

hippocampus; object location memory; plasticity; siRNA; subthreshold

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUTYRIC ACID; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TRANSFORMATION; EPIGENETICS; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE ACETYLATION; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; UPREGULATION; WEAKNESS;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BUTYRIC ACID; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE DEACETYLASE INHIBITORS; MALE; MEMORY, LONG-TERM; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84882452653     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.104     Document Type: Article

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