Intracerebral transplants and memory dysfunction: Circuitry repair or functional level setting?

Neural Plasticity

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 93-108

  Will, Bruno ^a   Kelche, Christian ^a   Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Frontal cortex; Graft; Hippocampus; Hydrogel; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; NORADRENALIN; PHYSOSTIGMINE; SEROTONIN;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FOREBRAIN; GENE TRANSFER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; LOCUS CERULEUS; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; REVIEW; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM;

EID: 0034007161     PISSN: 20905904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/np.2000.93     Document Type: Review

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