Nerve growth factor increases stimulus-evoked metabolic activity in acetylcholine-depleted barrel cortex

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 151-162

  Rahimi, Omid ^a   Eslin, Don E ^a   Hill II, Glenwood F ^a   Juliano, Sharon L ^a,b  

^a Dept of Anatomy and Cell Biology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

2 Deoxyglucose; Basal forebrain; Neural plasticity; Somatosensory cortex; Vibrissa

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STAINING; VIBRISSA;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; DEOXYGLUCOSE; FEMALE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0032805383     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990229970582     Document Type: Article

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