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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 107, Issue 17, Pages 7993-7998Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1000154107
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- US Public Health Service [AG21980, NS57186, NS44921, NS62414]
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Injury stimulates neurogenesis in the adult brain, but the role of injury-induced neurogenesis in brain repair and recovery is uncertain. One strategy for investigating this issue is to ablate neuronal precursors and thereby prevent neurogenesis, but this is difficult to achieve in a specific fashion. We produced transgenic mice that express herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase (TK) under control of the promoter for doublecortin (Dcx), a microtubule-associated protein expressed in newborn and migrating neurons. Treatment for 14 days with the antiviral drug ganciclovir (GCV) depleted Dcx-expressing and BrdU-labeled cells from the rostral subventricular zone and dentate gyrus, and abolished neurogenesis and associated neuromigration induced by focal cerebral ischemia. GCV treatment of Dcx-TK transgenic, but not WT, mice also increased infarct size and exacerbated postischemic sensorimotor behavioral deficits measured by rotarod, limb placing, and elevated body swing tests. These findings provide evidence that injury-induced neurogenesis contributes to stroke outcome and might therefore be a target for stroke therapy.
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