Environmental enrichment and physical exercise revert behavioral and electrophysiological impairments caused by reduced adult neurogenesis

Hippocampus

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 36-51

  Sakalem, Marna Eliana ^a   Seidenbecher, Thomas ^a   Zhang, Mingyue ^a   Saffari, Roja ^a   Kravchenko, Mykola ^a   Wördemann, Stephanie ^a   Diederich, Kai ^a   Schwamborn, Jens C ^b   Zhang, Weiqi ^a   Ambrée, Oliver ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

adult neurogenesis; cognition; emotion; environmental enrichment; running

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNTING; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANXIETY; C57BL MOUSE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84991669657     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22669     Document Type: Article

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