Reversible modulations of neuronal plasticity by VEGF

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5081-5086

  Licht, Tamar ^a   Goshen, Inbal ^b   Avital, Avi ^c,d   Kreisel, Tirzah ^b   Zubedat, Salman ^c   Eavri, Ronen ^a   Segal, Menahem ^d   Yirmiya, Raz ^b   Keshet, Eli ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c Yezreel Valley College   (Israel)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Learning; Neural stem cells; Vascular biology

Indexed keywords

VASCULOTROPIN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BLOOD VESSEL; COGNITION; DENTATE GYRUS; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MODULATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROGENESIS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

MUS;

EID: 79953170934     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007640108     Document Type: Article

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