The seasonal pattern of cell proliferation and neuron number in the dentate gyrus of wild adult eastern grey squirrels

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 643-648

  Lavenex, Pierre ^a,c   Steele, Michael A ^b   Jacobs, Lucia F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Food caching; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Plasticity; Seasonal behaviour; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SQUIRREL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CELL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; SCIURIDAE; SEASONS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034091628     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00949.x     Document Type: Article

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