Severe learning impairment caused by combined immunotoxic lesion of the cholinergic projections to the cortex and hippocampus in monkeys

Brain Research

Volumn 836, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 120-138

  Ridley, Rosalind M ^a   Pugh, Perdita ^a   MacLean, Catherine J ^a   Baker, Harry F ^a  

^a MRC Comparative Cognition Team   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Cortex; Discrimination learning; Hippocampus; Monkey; Saporin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; PILOCARPINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CALLITHRIX; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0033620903     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01641-8     Document Type: Article

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