Neurogenesis in the R6/1 transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease: Effects of environmental enrichment

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1829-1838

  Lazic, Stanley E ^a   Grote, Helen E ^b   Blakemore, Colin ^b   Hannan, Anthony J ^b,c   Van Dellen, Anton ^b   Phillips, Wendy ^a,d   Barker, Roger A ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Dentate gyrus; Doublecortin; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DOUBLECORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GENOTYPE; GRANULAR CELL; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SURVIVAL; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURITES; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OLFACTORY BULB; STEM CELLS;

EID: 33645452859     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04715.x     Document Type: Article

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