Galvanic vestibular stimulation impairs cell proliferation and neurogenesis in the rat hippocampus but not spatial memory

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 541-552

  Zheng, Yiwen ^a   Geddes, Lisa ^a   Sato, Go ^a,b   Stiles, Lucy ^a   Darlington, Cynthia L ^a   Smith, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Galvanic vestibular stimulation; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Rat

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DOUBLECORTIN PROTEIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GALVANIC VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; REFERENCE MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VESTIBULAR STIMULATION; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VESTIBULAR NERVE; WISTAR RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REVERSAL LEARNING; VESTIBULAR NERVE;

EID: 84897531578     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22247     Document Type: Article

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