Prominent decline of newborn cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis in the aging dentate gyrus, in absence of an age-related hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activation

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 361-375

  Heine, Vivi M ^a   Maslam, Suharti ^a   Joëls, Marian ^a   Lucassen, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Apoptosis; Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Migration; Neurogenesis; Rat; Stress; Wistar

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 1242316182     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-4580(03)00090-3     Document Type: Article

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