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SUBMITTER: Kozorovitskiy Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1297690 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kozorovitskiy Yevgenia Y Gross Charles G CG Kopil Catherine C Battaglia Lisa L McBreen Meghan M Stranahan Alexis M AM Gould Elizabeth E
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20051118 48
Primates exhibit complex social and cognitive behavior in the wild. In the laboratory, however, the expression of their behavior is usually limited. A large body of literature shows that living in an enriched environment alters dendrites and synapses in the brains of adult rodents. To date, no studies have investigated the influence of living in a complex environment on brain structure in adult primates. We assessed dendritic architecture, dendritic spines, and synaptic proteins in adult marmose ...[more]