hippocampal
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- adjective
- /ˌhɪpəˈkæmpəl/
- Specialized
- We think it's because during slow wave sleep, there's a lot more flow of information from hippocampal structures.
- hippocampal neurons
- hippocampal sclerosis
- hippocampal damage
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Watch on YouTubeSo he did this in tissue culture of hippocampal neurons.
- So he did this in tissue culture of hippocampal neurons.
- Similarly, after a week, they saw the same impact on hippocampal dependent learning and memory tasks.
- That is what's growing those brand new hippocampal cells.
- OK, well that's how you study parts of the brain and particularly the hippocampal areas in humans.
- So again, that would fit with what we're saying for the hippocampal side of things.
- So you can imagine the hippocampal, you know, the lack of those neuroprogenitor cells, they're just not being stimulated.
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Researchers found that the hippocampal region is crucial for memory and learning.
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The results from this study show that Lcn2 contributes to hippocampal iron accumulation in the J20 AD mouse model.
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So again, that would fit with what we're saying for the hippocampal side of things.
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Think we're at the end of the hour, so we'll be talking now about the hippocampal formation next time.
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Similarly, after a week, they saw the same impact on hippocampal dependent learning and memory tasks.
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OK, well that's how you study parts of the brain and particularly the hippocampal areas in humans.
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Given the possibility that CFS may cause hippocampal damage and epilepsy, they require urgent medical intervention.
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The current preclinical study demonstrated that Simvastatin was effective in inhibiting the apoptosis of hippocampal cells and inflammation in mice with Alzheimer's disease.
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Simvastatin inhibits hippocampal cell apoptosis. Reducing the apoptosis of hippocampal neurons is a key requirement of therapeutics for Alzheimer's disease.
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Acetylcholine is an important neuromodulator for memory encoding and has been shown to facilitate hippocampal LTP (Huerta and Lisman, 1995).
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Surface Forms
Morphology
hippocampal = hippocampus (transparent) = hippocampus + al
The adjective is formed in the regular way from the noun 'hippocampus' plus the adjectival suffix '-al'.
Etymology
Hippocampal comes from hippocampus, a part of the brain named after a 'seahorse' because of its shape, and hippo- means 'horse', as in hippopotamus. So, hippocampal means 'relating to the hippocampus', the brain area that helps memory and learning.