Inhibition of adult neurogenesis through ERK5 knockdown impairs complex hippocampus-dependent spatial memory tasks

Future Neurology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 531-535

  Fitzsimons, Carlos P ^a   Vreugdenhil, Erno ^b   Lucassen, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

hippocampus; memory; neurogenesis; signaling; spatial learning

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7;

BRAIN REGION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SILENCING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84866334689     PISSN: 14796708     EISSN: 17486971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fnl.12.55     Document Type: Note

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