Efficacy of doublecortin as a marker to analyse the absolute number and dendritic growth of newly generated neurons in the adult dentate gyrus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 234-246

  Rao, Muddanna S ^a,b   Shetty, Ashok K ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

5 bromodeoxyuridine; Hippocampus; Markers of new neurons in the adult CNS; Neurogenesis; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; BROXURIDINE; DOUBLECORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EUTHANASIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION; MALE; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RELIABILITY; TISSUE SECTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 0842330444     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2003.03123.x     Document Type: Article

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