Alteration of NMDA receptor-mediated synaptic responses in CA1 area of the aged rat hippocampus: Contribution of GABAergic and cholinergic deficits

Hippocampus

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 627-637

  Jouvenceau, A ^a   Dutar, P ^a   Billard, J M ^a,b  

^a Lab Physpharmacol du Syst Nerveux   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; CA1 pyramidal cells; CGP 55845; Cholinergic deafferentation; Compensatory mechanisms; GABA(B) receptor; Glutamate receptors; Hippocampus; NMDA receptor; Rat; Saporin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR; BENZYL[3 [[1 (3,4 DICHLOROPHENYL)ETHYL]AMINO] 2 HYDROXYPROPYL]PHOSPHINIC ACID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SAPORIN;

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; DENERVATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NERVE FIBERS; PHOSPHINIC ACIDS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROPANOLAMINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-B; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032420105     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1998)8:6<627::AID-HIPO5>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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