Increased generation of granule cells in adult Bcl-2-overexpressing mice: A role for cell death during continued hippocampal neurogenesis

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1907-1915

  Kuhn, H Georg ^a,b   Biebl, Manfred ^b   Wilhelm, Daniel ^b,c   Li, Mingwei ^d,e   Friedlander, Robert M ^d   Winkler, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BIOGEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Neuronal differentiation; Neuronal progenitor; Programmed cell death; Proliferation

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MATURATION; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; HIPPOMANE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGANOGENESIS; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2;

EID: 27644573411     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04377.x     Document Type: Article

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