Effects of intraseptal injection of 192-IgG-saporin in mature and aged Long-Evans rats

Brain Research

Volumn 718, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 25-36

  Bannon, Anthony W ^a   Curzon, Peter ^a   Gunther, Karen L ^a   Decker, Michael W ^a  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Acoustic startle; Aged rat; Medial septum; Morris waer maze; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

192 IGG SAPORIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEUROTOXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPATIAL MEMORY; STARTLE REFLEX;

EID: 0029891247     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01568-X     Document Type: Article

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