Responses of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons to damage in the adult brain

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 219-254

  Henderson, Zaineb ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; FOREBRAIN; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW;

EID: 0029904396     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0301-0082(95)00041-0     Document Type: Review

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