Learning impairment and cholinergic deafferentation after cortical nerve growth factor deprivation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3796-3803

  Gutiérrez, Humberto ^a   Miranda, María Isabel ^a   Bermúdez Rattoni, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

anti NGF antibodies; cholinergic basal forebrain; conditioned taste aversion; cortical cholinergic activity; inhibitory avoidance; memory

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; FOREBRAIN; INSULA; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MICRODIALYSIS; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASTE AVERSION;

EID: 0030919181     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-10-03796.1997     Document Type: Article

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