Experience-specific functional modification of the dentate gyrus through adult neurogenesis: A critical period during an immature stage

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3252-3259

  Tashiro, Ayumu ^a,c   Makino, Hiroshi ^a,d   Gage, Fred H ^a,b  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b Norwegian University of Science and Technology ^*  (United States)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; Dentate gyrus; Enriched environment; Hippocampus; Immediate early gene; Memory; Neurogenesis; Zif268

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN ZIF268; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENT; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS;

EID: 33947498496     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4941-06.2007     Document Type: Article

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