Amelioration of spatial navigation and short-term memory deficits by grafts of foetal basal forebrain tissue placed into the hippocampus and cortex of rats with selective cholinergic lesions

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2353-2370

  Leanza, G ^a,b   Martinez Serrano A ^a   Bjorklund A ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Basal forebrain; Functional recovery; Immunolesion; Neural transplantation; Short term memory; Spatial learning; Target reinnervation

Indexed keywords

SAPORIN;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TISSUE GRAFT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SWIMMING;

EID: 0031841120     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1998.00247.x     Document Type: Article

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