Experience-induced neurogenesis in the senescent dentate gyrus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 3206-3212

  Kempermann, Gerd ^a   Kuhn, H Georg ^a,b   Gage, Fred H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aging; Brain; Enriched environment; Hippocampus; Mouse; Neurogenesis; Plasticity; Progenitor cell; Stem cell; Stereology

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GLIA; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STEREOMETRY;

EID: 0032080116     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-09-03206.1998     Document Type: Article

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