Cholinergic neurons from different subdivisions of the basal forebrain lack connectional specificity for cerebral cortical target sites in vitro

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 143-147

  Baratta, Janie ^a   Ha, Dun ^a   Weiss, John H ^a   Yu, Jen ^a   Robertson, Richard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Basal forebrain; Cholinergic; Cortex; Hippocampus; Target selection

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SLICE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOCORTEX; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE CULTURE;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030598408     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(96)00148-4     Document Type: Article

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