Behavioral effects of basal forebrain cholinergic lesions in young adult and aging rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 933-945

  Paban, Véronique ^a,b   Chambon, Caroline ^a,b   Jaffard, Magali ^a,b   Alescio Lautier, Béatrice ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Aging; Nonmatching to position; Object location; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

192 IMMUNOGLOBULIN G SAPORIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FOREBRAIN; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS BASALIS MAGNOCELLULARIS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; RAT; RECOGNITION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; T MAZE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEPTAL NUCLEI; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 25444513374     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.4.933     Document Type: Article

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