Selective immunolesions of hippocampal cholinergic input fail to impair spatial working memory

Hippocampus

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 130-136

  McMahan, Robert W ^a   Sobel, Thomas J ^a   Baxter, Mark G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Acetylcholine; Hippocampus; Medial septum; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOENZYMATIC ASSAY; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030977215     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1997)7:2<130::AID-HIPO2>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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