MRI-detectable changes in mouse brain structure induced by voluntary exercise

NeuroImage

Volumn 113, Issue , 2015, Pages 175-183

  Cahill, Lindsay S ^a   Steadman, Patrick E ^a,b   Jones, Carly E ^a   Laliberté, Christine L ^a   Dazai, Jun ^a   Lerch, Jason P ^a,b   Stefanovic, Bojana ^b,c   Sled, John G ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Mouse brain; MRI; Voluntary exercise

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; C57BL MOUSE; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEFORMATION BASED MORPHOMETRY; DENTATE GYRUS; EX VIVO STUDY; EXERCISE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFERIOR CEREBELLAR PEDUNCLE; LEARNING; MEMORY; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLIVARY COMPLEX; PHYSIOLOGY; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES; STRATUM GRANULOSUM OF THE DENTATE GYRUS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; METHODS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 84964260939     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.03.036     Document Type: Article

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