Effects of fimbria-fornix transection on calpain and choline acetyl transferase activities in the septohippocampal pathway

Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 927-940

  Ayala Grosso, C ^a,d   Tam, J ^b   Xanthoudakis, S ^b   Bureau, Y ^b   Roy, S ^b   Nicholson, D W ^b   Robertson, G S ^b,c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MERCK FROSST CENTRE FOR THERAPEUTIC RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

C calpain II spectrin; AD; Alzheimer's disease; analysis of variance; ANOVA; apoptosis; axotomy; calpain cleaved spectrin; ChAT; choline acetyl transferase; cholinergic; EDTA; neurodegeneration; rodents; spectrin

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; CALPASTATIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; SPECTRIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HIPPOCAMPAL FIMBRIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RADIOENZYMATIC ASSAY; RAT;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALPAIN; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DIPEPTIDES; FORNIX (BRAIN); HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEUPEPTINS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPECTRIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2942696141     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2004.04.048     Document Type: Article

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