A study in the basolateral amygdala of rats in short-term enriched environment: selection of reference genes and quantification of TrkB and ERK mRNA with RT-qPCR

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Goh, Valerie Hui Hian
• مؤلفون آخرون: Rupshi Mitra
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2016
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/67348
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The brain is a highly plastic organ, liable to remodelling by several stimuli. Stress induces hypertrophy in the basolateral amygdala (BLA), culminating in increased risk to stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders. Environmental enrichment has been shown to confer resilience, affecting the brain i...