6-OHDA lesions of the nucleus accumbens accentuate memory deficits in animals with lesions to the forebrain cholinergic projection system: Effects of nicotine administration on learning and memory in the water maze

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-153

  Grigoryan, G ^a   Hodges, H ^a   Mitchell, S ^a   Sinden, J D ^a   Gray, J A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; NICOTINE; OXIDOPAMINE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE RELEASE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FACILITATION; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXIDOPAMINE; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0029960214     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/nlme.1996.0016     Document Type: Article

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