Nerve growth factor induces galanin gene expression in the rat basal forebrain: Implications for the treatment of cholinergic dysfunction

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 379, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 563-570

  Planas, Barbara ^a   Kolb, Pamella E ^a   Raskind, Murray A ^a,b   Miller, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; Alzheimer's disease; choline acetyltransferase; cholinergic basal forebrain; memory

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GALANIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FRONTAL LOBE; GALANIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NEUROTENSIN; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

EID: 0031039835     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970324)379:4<563::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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