Effects of long-term exercise on Spatial learning, memory ability, and cortical capillaries in aged rats

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 21, Issue , 2015, Pages 945-954

  Wang, Sanrong ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Huang, Chunxia ^a   Xiu, Yun ^a   Wang, Feifei ^a   Zhou, Chunni ^a   Luo, Yanmin ^a   Xiao, Qian ^a   Tang, Yong ^a  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Exercise; Spatial behavior

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BRAIN CAPILLARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL CAPILLARY LENGTH; CORTICAL CAPILLARY SURFACE AREA; CORTICAL CAPILLARY VOLUME; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY ASSESSMENT; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; RAT; RUNNING; SPATIAL LEARNING; STEREOLOGY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; AGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CAPILLARY; IMAGE PROCESSING; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CAPILLARIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPATIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84926361326     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.893935     Document Type: Article

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