Differential effect of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS-III) on the regulation of adult neurogenesis and behaviour

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 885-895

  Reif, Andreas ^a   Schmitt, Angelika ^a   Fritzen, Sabrina ^a   Chourbaji, Sabine ^b   Bartsch, Colin ^a   Urani, Alexandre ^b   Wycislo, Matthias ^a   Mössner, Rainald ^a   Sommer, Claudia ^a   Gass, Peter ^b   Lesch, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Ctrl Institute of Mental Health   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; Knockout; Mouse; NO; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; VASCULOTROPIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXAMINATION; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; LEARNING; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; STEM CELLS;

EID: 4344690602     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03559.x     Document Type: Article

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