Differences in memory impairment and response to GM1 ganglioside treatment following electrolytic or ibotenic acid lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-37

  Lescaudron, Laurent ^a   Stein, Donald G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrolytic and ibotenic lesions; GM1 ganglioside treatment; Nucleus basalis

Indexed keywords

ANIRACETAM; CHOLINE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; IBOTENIC ACID; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; OXIRACETAM; PYRITINOL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0032873432     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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