Circulating Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Mediates Exercise-Induced Increases in the Number of New Neurons in the Adult Hippocampus

Luís Trejo, José; Carro, Eva; Torres‐Alemán, Ignacio

doi:10.1523/jneurosci.21-05-01628.2001

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Circulating Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Mediates Exercise-Induced Increases in the Number of New Neurons in the Adult Hippocampus

Published in Journal of Neuroscience • Mar 1, 2001

Authors:

José Luís Trejo

Eva Carro

Ignacio Torres‐Alemán

Abstract

Although the physiological significance of continued formation of new neurons in the adult mammalian brain is still uncertain, therapeutic strategies aimed to potentiate this process show great promise. Several external factors, including physical exercise, increase the number of new neurons in the ...

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Hippocampal formation

Hippocampus

Endocrinology

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