Changes in binding to muscarinic and nicotinic cholinergic receptors in the chick telencephalon, following passive avoidance learning

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 75-78

  Mezey, Sz ^a   Szekely A D ^b   Bourne, R C ^c   Kabai, P ^a   Csillag, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine receptors; Autoradiography; Chick brain; Hippocampus; Hyperstriatum ventrale; Lobus parolfactorius; Passive avoidance learning

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN; MUSCARINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; QUINUCLIDINYL BENZILATE; TRITIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BINDING; TELENCEPHALON;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BUNGAROTOXINS; CHICKENS; HIPPOCAMPUS; PROSENCEPHALON; QUINUCLIDINYL BENZILATE; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; TELENCEPHALON; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0345552162     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00472-3     Document Type: Article

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