5-Fluorouracil chemotherapy affects spatial working memory and newborn neurons in the adult rat hippocampus

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 323-330

  Mustafa, Sarah ^a   Walker, Alex ^a   Bennett, Geoffrey ^a   Wigmore, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Hippocampus; Memory; Neurogenesis; Rat

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; FLUOROURACIL; KI 67 ANTIGEN; NEUROTROPHIN; RECA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; FLUOROURACIL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 48249126198     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06325.x     Document Type: Article

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