VEGF links hippocampal activity with neurogenesis, learning and memory

Nature Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 827-835

  Cao, Lei ^a,b   Jiao, Xiangyang ^b   Zuzga, David S ^b   Liu, Yuhong ^b   Fong, Dahna M ^c   Young, Deborah ^c   During, Matthew J ^a,b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 1;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; RATS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

ANIMALIA; HIPPOCAMPUS HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 3542999278     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1395     Document Type: Article

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