Nerve growth factor attenuates cholinergic deficits following traumatic brain injury in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 479-490

  Dixon, C Edward ^b   Flinn, Paul ^a   Juliang, Bao ^a   Venya, Richard ^a   Hayes, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031214428     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1997.6557     Document Type: Article

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