Physical exercise enhances cognitive flexibility as well as astrocytic and synaptic markers in the medial prefrontal cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Brockett, Adam T ^a   LaMarca, Elizabeth A ^a   Gould, Elizabeth ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL BODY; CELL DENSITY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RUNNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPSE;

RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; ASTROCYTES; BIOMARKERS; COGNITION; DENDRITIC SPINES; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84929193529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0124859     Document Type: Article

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