Untangling the influences of voluntary running, environmental complexity, social housing and stress on adult hippocampal neurogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Grégoire, Catherine Alexandra ^a,b   Bonenfant, David ^a   Le Nguyen, Adalie ^a   Aumont, Anne ^a,b   Fernandes, Karl J L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPOLARIZATION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLEXITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RUNNING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UPREGULATION; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGENESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RUNNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899830777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086237     Document Type: Article

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