Reversal of age-dependent cognitive impairments and cholinergic neuron atrophy by NGF-secreting neural progenitors grafted to the basal forebrain

Neuron

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 473-484

  Martínez Serrano, Alberto ^a   Fischer, Walter ^a   Björklund, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN A; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENE;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMAL; BRAIN TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL SIZE; CELL SURVIVAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029080919     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0896-6273(95)90051-9     Document Type: Article

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