Environmental enrichment induces neuroplastic changes in middle age female BalbC mice and increases the hippocampal levels of BDNF, p-Akt and p-MAPK1/2

Neuroscience

Volumn 260, Issue , 2014, Pages 158-170

  Ramirez Rodriguez G ^a   Ocana Fernandez M A ^a   Vega Rivera, N M ^a   Torres Perez O M ^a   Gomez Sanchez A ^a   Estrada Camarena, E ^a   Ortiz Lopez L ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Aging; BDNF; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Neuroplasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PHOSPHORYLATED AKT PROTEIN; PHOSPHORYLATED MAPK1; PHOSPHORYLATED MAPK2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DORSAL VENTRAL DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MIDDLE AGED; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGING; BDNF; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALRETININ; CR; DCX; DOUBLECORTIN; EDTA; ENR; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETIC ACID; GCL; GRANULAR CELL LAYER; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPLASTICITY; NH; NORMAL HOUSING; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL-3-KINASE; PI3K; TTBS; TWEEN 20-TBS; ZEITGEBER TIME; ZT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DENDRITIC SPINES; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT;

EID: 84892472273     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.12.026     Document Type: Article

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