Quantifying the behavioural relevance of ippocampal neurogenesis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Lazic, Stanley E ^a   Fuss, Johannes ^b   Gass, Peter ^b  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; NESTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; GENE SILENCING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN; TASK PERFORMANCE; AFFECT; ANIMAL; COGNITION; CYTOLOGY; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; COGNITION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROGENESIS;

EID: 84913528984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113855     Document Type: Article

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