Environmental enrichment enhances autophagy signaling in the rat hippocampus

Brain Research

Volumn 1592, Issue , 2014, Pages 113-123

  Takahashi, Tomohisa ^a   Shimizu, Kunio ^a   Shimazaki, Kuniko ^b   Toda, Hiroyuki ^a   Nibuya, Masashi ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autophagy; Environmental enrichment; Hippocampus; Inescapable stress; Neuronal plasticity; Post traumatic stress disorder animal model

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; LC3 PROTEIN, RAT; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANXIETY; AUTOPHAGY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WESTERN BLOTTING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AUTOPHAGY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ENVIRONMENT; ESCAPE REACTION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84916603231     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.10.026     Document Type: Article

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