Insights into the role of the cholinergic component of the septohippocampal pathway: What have we learned from experimental lesion studies?

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 245-255

  Hortnagl H ^a,c   Hellweg, R ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CEVIMELINE; HUPERZINE A; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NICOTINE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; TACRINE;

BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN INJURY; CHEMICAL INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 0030986368     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0361-9230(97)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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