Chronic intracerebroventricular infusion of β-amyloid (1-40) results in a selective loss of neuropeptides in addition to a reduction in choline acetyltransferase activity in the cortical mantle and hippocampus in the rat

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 897, Issue , 1999, Pages 420-422

  Nag, S ^a   Yee, B K ^a   Tang, F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PEPTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 0033378754     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb07911.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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