“…All stages of hippocampal progenitor development -proliferation, differentiation, and survival -can be influenced by environmental and physiological stimuli (Cameron et al, 1998, Eisch, 2002, Abrous et al, 2005. For example, adult in vivo exposure to MOR agonists decreases the proliferation and survival of new neurons in the hippocampus (Eisch et al, 2000, Mandyam et al, 2004, Kahn et al, 2005, Eisch and Harburg, 2006. In order to examine the impact of loss of MOR on adult hippocampal neurogenesis, we examine the proliferation, differentiation, and survival of new neurons in the hippocampus of adult transgenic mice lacking exon 1 of MOR (Sora et al, 1997).…”