17β-Estradiol enhances cortical cholinergic innervation and preserves synaptic density following excitotoxic lesions to the rat nucleus basalis magnocellularis

Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 489-504

  Horvath, K M ^a   Hartig W ^b   Van der Veen, R ^a   Keijser, J N ^a   Mulder, J ^a   Ziegert, M ^b   Van der Zee, E A ^a   Harkany, T ^a   Luiten, P G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Learning; Memory; N methyl D aspartate; Somatosensory cortex; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; EXCITOTOXIN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; OIL; PROTEIN P75; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CARRIER PROTEIN; ESTRADIOL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; NEUROTOXIN; SLC18A3 PROTEIN, RAT; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GIANT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MEMORY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OVARIECTOMY; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME; WISTAR RAT;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MEMORY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; NEUROTOXINS; OVARIECTOMY; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0037138973     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(01)00560-7     Document Type: Article

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