Nerve growth factor improves spatial learning and restores hippocampal cholinergic fibers in rats withdrawn from chronic treatment with ethanol

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 88-94

  Lukoyanov, Nikolai V ^a   Pereira, Pedro A ^a   Paula Barbosa, Manuel M ^a   Cadete Leite, António ^a  

^a Porto Medical School   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Alcohol withdrawal; Cholinergic fibers; Hippocampal formation; Nerve growth factor; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC MINIPUMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL; MEMORY; METABOLISM; SENSORY NERVE; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; WISTAR RAT; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; ETHANOL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; WATER;

EID: 0037213666     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1290-7     Document Type: Article

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