Treadmill exercise prevents learning and memory impairment in Alzheimer's disease-like pathology

Current Alzheimer Research

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 507-515

  Dao, An T ^a   Zagaar, Munder A ^a   Levine, Amber T ^a   Salim, Samina ^a   Eriksen, Jason L ^a   Alkadhi, Karim A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); Calcineurin (PP2B); Calcium calmodulin dependent protein kinase II (CAMKII); Exercise; Learning and memory; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TREADMILL EXERCISE; UPREGULATION;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXERCISE TEST; LEARNING DISORDERS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84888260519     PISSN: 15672050     EISSN: 18755828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1567205011310050006     Document Type: Article

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