Radiation injury and neurogenesis

Current Opinion in Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-134

  Monje, Michelle L ^a   Palmer, Theo ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cranial radiation therapy; Memory; Microglia; Neural stem cells; Neuroinflammation

Indexed keywords

CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; STEM CELL; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MITOSIS; NEURONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; STEM CELLS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0037396768     PISSN: 13507540     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019052-200304000-00002     Document Type: Review

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