Cortical cholinergic function and deficits in visual attentional performance in rats following 192 IgG-saporin-induced lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 922-932

  Dalley, Jeffrey W ^a   Theobald, David E ^a   Bouger, Pascale ^a   Chudasama, Yogita ^b   Cardinal, Rudolf N ^a   Robbins, Trevor W ^a  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Acetylcholine; Five choice serial reaction time task; Impulsivity; Medial prefrontal cortex; Muscarinic receptors; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPORIN; SCOPOLAMINE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REACTION TIME; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AROUSAL; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VISION DISORDERS;

EID: 3242774341     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhh052     Document Type: Article

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