5,7-DHT-induced hippocampal 5-HT depletion attenuates behavioural deficits produced by 192 IgG-saporin lesions of septal cholinergic neurons in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1991-2006

  Lehmann, Olivia ^a   Bertrand, Fabrice ^a   Jeltsch, Hélène ^a   Morer, Martine ^a   Lazarus, Christine ^a   Will, Bruno ^a   Cassel, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Memory; Radial maze; Sensorimotor; T maze alternation; Water maze

Indexed keywords

5,6 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SAPORIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIMBRIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; WORKING MEMORY;

5,7-DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; COGNITION DISORDERS; DENERVATION; DRUG INTERACTIONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS;

EID: 0036455668     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02037.x     Document Type: Article

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