Early effects of a high-caloric diet and physical exercise on brain volumetry and behavior: a combined MRI and histology study in mice

Brain Imaging and Behavior

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1385-1396

  Sack, Markus ^a   Lenz, Jenny N ^b   Jakovcevski, Mira ^b   Biedermann, Sarah V ^a,e   Falfán Melgoza, Claudia ^a   Deussing, Jan ^b   Bielohuby, Maximilian ^c   Bidlingmaier, Martin ^c   Pfister, Frederik ^d   Stalla, Günter K ^b   Sartorius, Alexander ^a   Gass, Peter ^a   Weber Fahr, Wolfgang ^a   Fuss, Johannes ^a,e   Auer, Matthias K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Diabetes; Exercise; Grey matter; Obesity; Voxel based morphometry; White matter

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; DOUBLECORTIN PROTEIN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN SIZE; DIET; EXERCISE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GRAY MATTER; HIGH CALORY DIET; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMORY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RUNNING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN; DIET; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GRAY MATTER; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SIZE; RUNNING; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 85042436098     PISSN: 19317557     EISSN: 19317565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11682-016-9638-y     Document Type: Article

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