Retrograde degeneration and colchicine protection of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons following hippocampal injections of an immunotoxin against the p75 nerve growth factor receptor

Neuroscience

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-133

  Ohtake, T ^a,b   Heckers, S ^a   Wiley, R G ^c   Lappi, D A ^d   Mesulam, M M ^e   Geula, C ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN NEUROLOGICAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Advanced Targeting Systems   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Alzheimer's disease; cholinergic loss

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COLCHICINE; IMMUNOTOXIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; SAPORIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; COLCHICINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; INJECTIONS; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 0031001262     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00520-9     Document Type: Article

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