Alterations in cognitive function in prepubertal mice with protein malnutrition: Relationship to changes in choline acetyltransferase

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 111-117

  Nakagawasai, Osamu ^a   Yamadera, Fumihiro ^a   Sato, Shoko ^a   Taniguchi, Ryoo ^a   Hiraga, Hajime ^a   Arai, Yuichiro ^b   Murakami, Hitoshi ^c   Mawatari, Kazunori ^c   Niijima, Fukie ^a   Tan No, Koichi ^a   Tadano, Takeshi ^a  

^a TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Hippocampus; Memory; Mice; Protein malnutrition

Indexed keywords

CASEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITOR; PHYSOSTIGMINE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DIET; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINESTERASE INHIBITORS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; PHYSOSTIGMINE; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 30344478836     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.08.024     Document Type: Article

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