Transplantation of Hippocampal Cell Lines Restore Spatial Learning in Rats With Ventral Subicular Lesions

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1197-1217

  Rekha, J ^a   Chakravarthy, Sridhara ^b   Veena, L R ^a,c   Kalai, Vani P ^a   Choudhury, Rupam ^b   Halahalli, Harsha N ^a   Alladi, Phalguni Anand ^a   Dhanushkodi, Anandh ^a   Nirmala, M ^a   Swamilingiah, Geetha M ^b   Agrahari, Maulishree ^c   Raju, T R ^a   Panicker, M M ^b   Kutty, Bindu M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c PES UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

brain lesion; functional recovery; hippocampal transplants; learning impairment; neurodegeneration; trophic factors

Indexed keywords

BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VENTRAL SUBICULAR LESION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL COUNT; CELL LINE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 2; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72249104539     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017655     Document Type: Article

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