Effects of environmental enrichment on white matter glial responses in a mouse model of chronic cerebral hypoperfusion

Journal of Neuroinflammation

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Hase, Yoshiki ^a   Craggs, Lucinda ^a   Hase, Mai ^a   Stevenson, William ^a   Slade, Janet ^a   Lopez, Dianne ^a   Mehta, Rubin ^a   Chen, Aiqing ^a   Liang, Di ^a   Oakley, Arthur ^a   Ihara, Masafumi ^b   Horsburgh, Karen ^c   Kalaria, Raj N ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal model; Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion; Clasmatodendrosis; Environmental enrichment; Glial activation proliferation

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN 4; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; AIF1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUTHANASIA; GLIOSIS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; GLIA; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; NESTING; NURSING; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AQUAPORIN 4; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CAROTID STENOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NEUROGLIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85018514579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17422094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12974-017-0850-5     Document Type: Article

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