Responses of young and aged rat CNS to partial cholinergic immunolesions and NGF treatment

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 322-333

  Wörtwein, Gitta ^a   Yu, Juan ^b   Toliver Kinsky, Tracy ^b   Perez Polo, J R ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Ageing; AP 1; Choline acetyltransferase; Nerve growth factor; NFB; p75(NGFR); trkA

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR;

AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEAFFERENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; DNA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NERVE GROWTH FACTORS; NF-KAPPA B; OLFACTORY BULB; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTOR, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTORS, NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP-1;

EID: 2642614501     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4547(19980501)52:3<322::AID-JNR8>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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