Anterior thalamic lesions reduce spine density in both hippocampal CA1 and retrosplenial cortex, but enrichment rescues CA1 spines only

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1232-1247

  Harland, Bruce C ^a   Collings, David A ^a   Mcnaughton, Neil ^b   Abraham, Wickliffe C ^b   Dalrymple Alford, John C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c NEW ZEALAND BRAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Hippocampus; Neuromorphology; Retrosplenial granular b cortex; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL DENSITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; BRAIN CORTEX; DENDRITIC SPINE; DISEASE MODEL; INJURIES; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITIC SPINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84927566934     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22309     Document Type: Article

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