Genetic influence on neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult mice

AUTOR(ES)

Kempermann, Gerd

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences of the USA

RESUMO

To address genetic influences on hippocampal neurogenesis in adult mice, we compared C57BL/6, BALB/c, CD1(ICR), and 129Sv/J mice to examine proliferation, survival, and differentiation of newborn cells in the dentate gyrus. Proliferation was highest in C57BL/6; the survival rate of newborn cells was highest in CD1. In all strains ≈60% of surviving newborn cells had a neuronal phenotype, but 129/SvJ produced more astrocytes. Over 6 days C57BL/6 produced 0.36% of their total granule cell number of 239,000 as new neurons, BALB/c 0.30% of 242,000, CD1 (ICR) 0.32% of 351,000, and 129/SvJ 0.16% of 280,000. These results show that different aspects of adult hippocampal neurogenesis are differentially influenced by the genetic background.

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