Chronic retinoic acid treatment suppresses adult hippocampal neurogenesis, in close correlation with depressive-like behavior

Hippocampus

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 911-923

  Hu, Pu ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Liu, Ji ^a   Meng, Fan Tao ^a   Qi, Xin Rui ^a   Chen, Lin ^a   van Dam, Anne Marie ^b   Joëls, Marian ^c   Lucassen, Paul J ^d   Zhou, Jiang Ning ^a  

^a University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

all trans retinoic acid; depression; learning and memory; Morris water maze; neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; DOUBLECORTIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84975091239     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22574     Document Type: Article

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