Effects of cholinergic depletion on glutamic acid decarboxylase immunoreactivity in the somatosensory cortex of rats

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-38

  Herron, Paul ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Li, Zhicheng ^a   Schweitzer, John B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; GABA; Immunotoxin; Nucleus basalis of Meynert; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE LESION; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSAE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030747452     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050077     Document Type: Article

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