Impaired basal and running-induced hippocampal neurogenesis coincides with reduced Akt signaling in adult R6/1 HD mice

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 54, Issue , 2013, Pages 93-107

  Ransome, Mark I ^a   Hannan, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Akt; Exercise; Growth hormone; Hippocampal neurogenesis; Huntington's disease; IGF 1; R6 1 transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HUNTINGTIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN KINASE B; SOMATOMEDIN C; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPAL NEUROGENESIS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; STEM CELL NICHE; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; CELL PROLIFERATION; FEMALE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROGLIA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RUNNING; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84875278767     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: 10959327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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