Mental and physical skill training increases neurogenesis via cell survival in the adolescent hippocampus

Brain Research

Volumn 1654, Issue , 2017, Pages 95-101

  DiFeo, Gina ^a   Shors, Tracey J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; Neurogenesis; Puberty; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL LABELING; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENDURANCE; ENERGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MITOSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; ROTAROD TEST; SKILL; TRAINING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 85002874799     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2016.08.015     Document Type: Review

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