Stress-induced anxiety- and depressive-like phenotype associated with transient reduction in neurogenesis in adult Nestin-CreERT2/diphtheria toxin fragment A transgenic mice

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Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Yun, Sanghee ^a   Donovan, Michael H ^a   Ross, Michele N ^a   Richardson, Devon R ^a   Reister, Robin ^a   Farnbauch, Laure A ^a   Fischer, Stephanie J ^a   Riethmacher, Dieter ^b,c   Gershenfeld, Howard K ^a   Lagace, Diane C ^a   Eisch, Amelia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; IMMOBILITY; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STRESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY DISORDERS; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

CRE RECOMBINASE; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN FRAGMENT A; INTEGRASE; NES PROTEIN, MOUSE; NESTIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTEGRASES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NESTIN; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHENOTYPE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84958554890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147256     Document Type: Article

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