Serotonin and acetylcholine are crucial to maintain hippocampal synapses and memory acquisition in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-16

  Matsukawa, Mutsumi ^a   Ogawa, Megumu ^a   Nakadate, Kazuhiko ^a   Maeshima, Toru ^b   Ichitani, Yukio ^a   Kawai, Nobufumi ^c   Okado, Nobuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Biogenic amines; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Plasticity; Serotonin; Spatial memory; Synapses

Indexed keywords

ETHYLCHOLINE MUSTARD AZIRIDINIUM; FENCLONINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOLOGY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SYNAPSE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AZIRIDINES; CHOLINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FENCLONINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENTS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN ANTAGONISTS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0031564832     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00460-6     Document Type: Article

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