Comparison of site-specific injections into the basal forebrain on water maze and radial arm maze performance in the male rat after immunolesioning with 192 IgG saporin

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 93-101

  Dornan, Wayne A ^a   McCampbell, Alex R ^a,c   Tinkler, Gregory P ^a   Hickman, Lesley J ^a   Bannon, Anthony W ^b   Decker, Michael W ^b   Gunther, Karen L ^b  

^a ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Hospital of the University   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; acetylcholine; Alzheimer's disease; cholinergic basal forebrain; medical septal area; memory; nucleus basalis magnocellularis; spatial learning

Indexed keywords

SAPORIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 0030482057     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)81112-6     Document Type: Article

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