Running rescues a fear-based contextual discrimination deficit in aged mice

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue AUGUST, 2015, Pages

  Wu, Melody V ^a,b,c   Luna, Victor M ^a,b   Hen, René ^a,b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Dentate gyrus; Exercise; Neurogenesis; Pattern separation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; EXERCISE; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NOVELTY SUPPRESSED FEEDING TEST; OPEN FIELD TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RUNNING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84941049215     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00114     Document Type: Article

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