Abbreviated environmental enrichment confers neurobehavioral, cognitive, and histological benefits in brain-injured female rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 286, Issue , 2016, Pages 61-68

  Radabaugh, Hannah L ^a,b   Carlson, Lauren J ^a,b   O'Neil, Darik A ^a,b   LaPorte, Megan J ^a,b   Monaco, Christina M ^a,b,e   Cheng, Jeffrey P ^a,b   de la Tremblaye, Patricia B ^a,b   Lajud, Naima ^a,b,c   Bondi, Corina O ^a,b,d   Kline, Anthony E ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL SEGURO SOCIAL   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e PHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral outcome; Controlled cortical impact; Environmental enrichment; Functional recovery; Learning and memory; Morris water maze; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HOUSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROREHABILITATION; NONHUMAN; PINCH STRENGTH; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX; ROTAROD TEST; SPATIAL LEARNING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NURSING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPATIAL LEARNING; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84988921580     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2016.09.015     Document Type: Article

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