Symptomatic effect of donepezil, rivastigmine, galantamine and memantine on cognitive deficits in the APP23 model

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 177-190

  Van Dam, Debby ^a   Abramowski, Dorothee ^b   Staufenbiel, Matthias ^b   De Deyn, Peter Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors; Alzheimer's disease; Cholinergic hypothesis; Cognition; Excitotoxicity; Morris water maze; NMDA receptor antagonist; Transgenic mouse model

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; DONEPEZIL; GALANTAMINE; MEMANTINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RIVASTIGMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; EXCITOTOXICITY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; COGNITION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GALANTAMINE; HUMANS; INDANS; MALE; MEMANTINE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PHENYLCARBAMATES; PIPERIDINES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 16844369849     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-004-2132-z     Document Type: Article

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