Physical exercise increases adult hippocampal neurogenesis in male rats provided it is aerobic and sustained

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 594, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1855-1873

  Nokia, Miriam S ^a   Lensu, Sanna ^a   Ahtiainen, Juha P ^a   Johansson, Petra P ^a   Koch, Lauren G ^b   Britton, Steven L ^b   Kainulainen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DOUBLECORTIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; ADULT HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SUSTAINED EXERCISE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RUNNING;

EID: 84959431965     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/JP271552     Document Type: Article

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