Astrocytic plasticity as a possible mediator of the cognitive improvements after environmental enrichment in aged rats

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 114, Issue , 2014, Pages 16-25

  Sampedro Piquero, P ^a   De Bartolo, Paola ^b,c   Petrosini, Laura ^b,c   Zancada Menendez, C ^a   Arias, J L ^a   Begega, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Astrocyte; Environmental enrichment; GFAP; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL SHAPE; COGNITION; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MAZE LEARNING; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 84899859698     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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