Neurochemical correlates of nicotine neurotoxicity on rat habenulo-interpeduncular cholinergic neurons

NeuroToxicology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 467-474

  Ciani, Elisabetta ^a   Severi, Sabina ^a   Bartesaghi, Renata ^a   Contestabile, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Drug of abuse; Habenula; Interpeduncular nucleus; Survival kinase; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NICOTINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CREB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HABENULA; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROTOXICITY; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; HABENULA; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; NEUROTOXICITY SYNDROMES; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 20344384231     PISSN: 0161813X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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