Learning enhances the survival of new neurons beyond the time when the hippocampus is required for memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 34, 2004, Pages 7477-7481

  Leuner, Bendetta ^a   Mendolia Loffredo, Sabrina ^a   Kozorovitskiy, Yevgenia ^b   Samburg, Deanna ^b   Gould, Elizabeth ^b   Shors, Tracey J ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BrdU; Cell death; Dentate gyrus; Eyeblink conditioning; Individual differences; Neurogenesis; Stress; Trace

Indexed keywords

BETA TUBULIN; BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BLINKING; CELL SURVIVAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 4444381084     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0204-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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