Intraparenchymal infusions of 192 IgG-saporin: Development of a method for selective and discrete lesioning of cholinergic basal forebrain nuclei

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 9-19

  Pizzo, Donald P ^a,b   Waite, Jerene J ^a,b   Thal, Leon J ^a,b   Winkler, Jürgen ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Choline acetyltransferase; Cortex; Hippocampus; Immunotoxin; Low affinity nerve growth factor receptor; Medial septum; Nucleus basalis magnocellularis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; IMMUNOTOXIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL DAMAGE; CINGULATE GYRUS; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM OF BRAIN;

EID: 0032887825     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-0270(99)00057-6     Document Type: Article

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