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6850295

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-7-8
pubmed:abstractText
Female rats were placed into complex (EC) or isolated (IC) environments for 45 days, beginning at 450 days of age. Golgi-Cox stained layer IV stellate and layer III occipital cortical pyramidal neurons were analyzed for numbers and lengths of dendritic branches and the amount and location of dendritic material with respect to the soma. In both cell populations, neurons from EC rats had significantly more dendritic material, with differences occurring throughout the dendritic field. In the stellate population, EC neurons had significantly longer terminating (non-bifurcating) branches, and more second and fifth order branches. In pyramidal cells, EC neurons had significantly more branches at each of orders 2-5 as well as significantly longer terminating branches. This report is the first to describe substantial dendritic alterations subsequent to differential housing in middle-aged rats. These results, taken with previous work, suggest that experience may affect neuronal structure over much of an animal's lifespan.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0006-8993
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
4
pubmed:volume
264
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
233-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
Effects of complex or isolated environments on cortical dendrites of middle-aged rats.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't