Chronic stress in the adult dentate gyrus reduces cell proliferation near the vasculature and VEGF and Flk-1 protein expression

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1304-1314

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosteroids; Hippocampus; Ki 67; Neurogenesis; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENIC FACTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULAR CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; STRESS; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLD; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; NAPHTHALENES; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OXEPINS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; STRESS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 17144409702     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.03951.x     Document Type: Article

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