Cholinergic control of nerve growth factor in adult rats: Evidence from cortical cholinergic deafferentation and chronic drug treatment

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 947-953

  Roßner, Steffen ^a   Wörtwein, Gitta ^b   Gu, Zezong ^c   Yu, Juan ^c   Schliebs, Reinhard ^a   Bigl, Volker ^a   Perez Polo, J Regino ^c  

^a Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research   (Germany)

^b University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

192IgG saporin; Immunolesion; Muscarinic; Nerve growth factor; Pilocarpine; Scopolamine

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PILOCARPINE; SAPORIN; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DEAFFERENTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RAT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1842329786     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1997.69030947.x     Document Type: Article

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