Enlarged cholinergic forebrain neurons and improved spatial learning in p75 knockout mice

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 885-893

  Greferath, Ursula ^a   Bennie, Antoinette ^a   Kourakis, Angela ^b   Bartlett, Perry F ^a   Murphy, Mark ^b   Barrett, Graham L ^b  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Basal forebrain; Cholinergic neuron; p75 neurotrophin receptor; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P75;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE LOCUS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LEARNING; MOUSE; NERVE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

EID: 0034124601     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00976.x     Document Type: Article

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