Responses in the aged rat brain after total immunolesion

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-16

  Gu, Zezong ^a   Yu, Juan ^a   Perez Polo, J Regino ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; ChAT; Cholinergic basal forebrain neurons; ELISA; Immunolesion; mRNA; NGF

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXICITY; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASTROCYTES; AUTONOMIC DENERVATION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MICROGLIA; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; OLFACTORY BULB; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 0032189954     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19981001)54:1<7::AID-JNR2>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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