Exposure of postnatal rats to glucocorticoids suppresses the development of choline acetyltransferase-immunoreactive neurons: Role of adrenal steroids in the development of forebrain cholinergic neurons

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-10

  Hu, Zhongting ^a   Yuri, Kazunari ^a   Ichikawa, Tomoyuki ^b   Kawata, Mitsuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caudate putamen; Dexamethasone; Nissl staining; Pup; Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA FRAGMENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CELL DEATH; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREBRAIN; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NISSL STAINING; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULAR ANSA; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0029935229     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0891-0618(95)00086-0     Document Type: Article

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