Rapid Proliferation of Dentate Gyrus Progenitors in the Ferret Hippocampus following Neonatal Lipopolysaccharide Exposure

These findings suggest that LPS promotes the proliferation of dentate gyrus progenitors. LPS may further act on the post-proliferative dentate gyrus progenitors to sustain their embryonic-type characteristics by preventing their transitions into the BLBP-expressing adult-type and/or S100-expressing glial cell lineages and by inhibiting programmed cell death.