Environmental enrichment rescues the effects of early life inflammation on markers of synaptic transmission and plasticity

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 151-160

  Kentner, Amanda C ^a   Khoury, Antoine ^a   Lima Queiroz, Erika ^a   MacRae, Molly ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; BDNF; Behavior; Environmental enrichment; Excitatory amino acid transporter; Experience; Hippocampus; Inflammation; Memory; Neurodevelopment; Prefrontal cortex; Prenatal; Social housing; TrkB

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 2; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 3; MESSENGER RNA; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 4; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BDNF GENE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84961282339     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.03.013     Document Type: Article

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