Combining restricted diet with forced or voluntary exercises improves hippocampal BDNF and cognitive function in rats

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 366-373

  Alomari, Mahmoud A ^a   Khabour, Omar F ^a,b   Alzoubi, Karem H ^a   Alzubi, Mohammad A ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

BDNF; diet; forced exercise; hippocampus; memory; voluntary exercise

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXERCISE; FORCED SWIM TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIAL ARM MAZE TEST; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; VOLUNTARY WHEEL EXERCISE; ANIMAL; CALORIC RESTRICTION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALORIC RESTRICTION; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS;

EID: 84954212116     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207454.2015.1012587     Document Type: Article

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