Sexually dimorphic effects of the Lhx7 null mutation on forebrain cholinergic function

Neuroscience

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1153-1164

  Fragkouli, A ^a,b   Stamatakis, A ^a   Zographos, E ^a   Pachnis, V ^b   Stylianopoulou, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Choline acetyltransferase; Forebrain cholinergic neurons; Gender differences; Lhx7 knock out mice; Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LIM PROTEIN; MUSCARINIC M1 RECEPTOR; MUSCARINIC M2 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN LHX7; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BINDING SITE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, MUSCARINIC; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 31144467495     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.10.037     Document Type: Article

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