Behavioural specificity of neocortical grafts of fetal basal forebrain tissue after unilateral lesion of the nucleus basalis with α-amino-3-OH-4- isoxozole propionic acid (AMPA)

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 407-414

  Abdulla, Fuad A ^a,b   Calaminici, Mariarita ^a,c   Gray, Jeffrey A ^a   Stephenson, John D ^a   Sinden, John D ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; AMPA; Morris water maze; Neural transplants; Nucleus basalis; Sensorimotor function

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA;

EID: 0030913374     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(96)00438-8     Document Type: Article

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