Hippocampal structure, metabolism, and inflammatory response after a 6-week intense aerobic exercise in healthy young adults: A controlled trial

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1570-1578

  Wagner, Gerd ^a   Herbsleb, Marco ^b   De La Cruz, Feliberto ^a   Schumann, Andy ^a   Brünner, Franziska ^a   Schachtzabel, Claudia ^a   Gussew, Alexander ^b   Puta, Christian ^b   Smesny, Stefan ^a   Gabriel, Holger W ^b   Reichenbach, Jürgen R ^b   Bär, Karl Jürgen ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

brain morphometry; brain structures; hippocampus; inflammation; metabolism; MR spectroscopy; physical activity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; N-ACETYLASPARTATE;

ADULT; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; YOUNG ADULT; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FITNESS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; GLUTAMATES; GLUTAMINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; INTERLEUKIN-6; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942984259     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2015.125     Document Type: Article

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