GM1 and the aged brain

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 845, Issue , 1998, Pages 225-231

  Hadjiconstantinou, Maria ^a,b   Neff, Norton H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AGING; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOLINE UPTAKE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOREBRAIN; LEARNING; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SYMPTOM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031880424     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09675.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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