Extensive reinnervation of the hippocampus by embryonic basal forebrain cholinergic neurons grafted into the septum of neonatal rats with selective cholinergic lesions

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 373, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 355-372

  Leanza, Giampiero ^a,b   Nikkhah, Guido ^a,c   Nilsson, Ola G ^a   Wiley, Ronald G ^d   Björklund, Anders ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c NORDSTADT HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

axon growth; immunotoxin; myelinated fiber pathways; neural transplantation; target reinnervation

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN GRAFT; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROBLAST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINNERVATION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 0029820358     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960923)373:3<355::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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