Differential modulation of the cholinergic phenotype of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis neurons by applying NGF at the cell body or cortical terminal fields

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 162-171

  Hu, Linsen ^a   Côté, Sylvain L ^a   Cuello, A Claudio ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0031022977     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.6357     Document Type: Article

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