The effects of cholinergic drugs and cholinergic-rich foetal neural transplants on alcohol-induced deficits in radial maze performance in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 7-28

  Hodges, H ^a   Allen, Y ^c   Sinden, J ^a   Mitchell, S N ^a   Arendt, T ^d   Lantos, P L ^b   Gray, J A ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cholinergic antagonist; Chronic alcohol treatment; Foetal neural transplant; Forebrain cholinergic projection system; Radial arm maze; Rat; Reference memory; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ARECOLINE; DOPAMINE; HEXAMETHONIUM; MECAMYLAMINE; METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; NICOTINE; NORADRENALIN; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ETHANOL; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GANGLIONIC BLOCKERS; HEXAMETHONIUM; HEXAMETHONIUM COMPOUNDS; MALE; MECAMYLAMINE; MENTAL RECALL; MESENCEPHALON; N-METHYLSCOPOLAMINE; NERVE REGENERATION; NICOTINE; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORIENTATION; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SCOPOLAMINE; SCOPOLAMINE DERIVATIVES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025756092     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(05)80048-8     Document Type: Article

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