Rabbit forebrain cholinergic system: Morphological characterization of nuclei and distribution of cholinergic terminals in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 460, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 597-611

  Varga, Csaba ^a   Härtig, Wolfgang ^a   Grosche, Jens ^a   Keijser, Jan ^b   Luiten, Paul G M ^b   Seeger, Johannes ^a   Brauer, Kurt ^a   Harkany, Tibor ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Calcium binding protein; Choline acetyltransferase; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Mapping; P75 low affinity neurotrophin receptor

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALRETININ; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN P75; SUBSTANCE P; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CORPUS STRIATUM; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROSENCEPHALON; RABBITS; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SUBSTANCE P; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0037964388     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10673     Document Type: Article

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