The effect of the loss of molar teeth on spatial memory and acetylcholine release from the parietal cortex in aged rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 239-242

  Kato, Takeshi ^a   Usami, Takeshi ^a   Noda, Yukihiro ^a   Hasegawa, Masaya ^a   Ueda, Minoru ^a   Nabeshima, Toshitaka ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

acetylcholine; aging; spatial memory; tooth loss

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ATROPINE; POTASSIUM;

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TOOTH EXTRACTION;

EID: 0031081096     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)86078-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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