Analysis of galanin and the galanin antagonist M40 on delayed non- matching-to-position performance in rats lesioned with the cholinergic immunotoxin 192IgG-saporin

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 552-563

  McDonald, Michael P ^a   Wenk, Gary L ^b   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GALANIN; IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPORIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; RAT;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BRAIN MAPPING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GALANIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; ORIENTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, GALANIN; RECEPTORS, GASTROINTESTINAL HORMONE;

EID: 0030991596     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.3.552     Document Type: Article

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