Mouse genetic differences in voluntary wheel running, adult hippocampal neurogenesis and learning on the multi-strain-adapted plus water maze

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 280, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-71

  Merritt, Jennifer R ^a   Rhodes, Justin S ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Exercise; Hippocampus; Rotarod; Spatial learning; Strain differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INBRED STRAIN; LATENT PERIOD; LIFESPAN; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL LEARNING; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING; WHEEL RUNNING; 129 MOUSE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; C57BL MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DBA MOUSE; INBRED MOUSE STRAIN; MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RUNNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BROXURIDINE;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROGENESIS; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; RUNNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING;

EID: 84916918641     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.11.030     Document Type: Article

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