Task difficulty in the Morris water task influences the survival of new neurons in the dentate gyrus

Hippocampus

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 866-876

  Epp, Jonathan R ^a   Haack, Andrew K ^a   Galea, Liisa A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

BrdU; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Proliferation; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL SURVIVAL; DENTATE GYRUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77953998455     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20692     Document Type: Article

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