High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat HFSJG
Research project:  
Project name:Effects of physical exercise and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor on the neurogliovascular adaption to hypoxia
Year:2013
Title:Effects of enriched environment (EE) including exercise and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) on rats’ memory performance at high altitude (3450 m)
Name of research institute or organization:  Department of Medicine. Unit of Anatomy. University of Fribourg
Project leader:Dr. Enrike Argandona
Project team:Dr. Edith Schneider Gasser, Dr. Markus Thiersch, Dr. Lavinia Alberi, Maria Alvarez Sanchez, Caroline Leuenberger, Dmitry Kosenkov, Prof. Max Gassmann

Activity report:   Effects of enriched environment (EE) including exercise and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) on rats’ memory performance at high altitude (3450 m)
Key words:   VEGF, angiogenesis, environmental enrichment, altitude hypoxia, spatial memory, visual memory
Address/contact:  
Address:Edith M. Schneider Gasser
 Institute of Veterinary Physiology, University of Zürich
 Wintherthurerstrasse 260
 8057 Zürich
Contact person:   Edith Schneider Gasser
Tel.:+41 63 588 17
Fax.:+41 63 589 32
e-mail:edith.schneidergasser@uzh.ch
URL:http://www.ehu.es/ehusfera/lance/

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