Tamoxifen activation of cre-recombinase has no persisting effects on adult neurogenesis or learning and anxiety

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue FEB, 2017, Pages

  Rotheneichner, Peter ^a   Romanelli, Pasquale ^a   Bieler, Lara ^a   Pagitsch, Sebastian ^a   Zaunmair, Pia ^a   Kreutzer, Christina ^a   König, Richard ^a   Marschallinger, Julia ^a   Aigner, Ludwig ^a   Couillard Després, Sébastien ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Behavior; CreERT; Gender; Hippocampus; Learning; Memory; Nestin; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; CYCLINE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; NESTIN; TAMOXIFEN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ADULT NEUROGENESIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG MECHANISM; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE; MULTIPOTENT STEM CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; STEM CELL NICHE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 85014404258     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00027     Document Type: Article

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