Chronic elevation of amyloid precursor protein expression in the neocortex and hippocampus of rats with selective cholinergic lesions

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 53-56

  Leanza, Giampiero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

amyloid precursor protein; Acetylcholine; Alzheimer's disease; Basal forebrain; Immunotoxin; Rat

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; IMMUNOTOXIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NEOCORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032553350     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00744-7     Document Type: Article

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