Cholinergic cells in the nucleus basalis of mice express the N-methyl-D-aspartate-receptor subunit NR2C and its replacement by the NR2B subunit enhances frontal and amygdaloid acetylcholine levels

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 552-560

  De Souza Silva, M A ^a   Dolga, A ^b   Pieri, I ^c   Marchetti, L ^c   Eisel, U L M ^b   Huston, J P ^a   Dere, E ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Behavioral habituation; NMDA receptors; Novelty; NR2C 2B mice; Nucleus basalis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; FRONTAL CORTEX; HABITUATION; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STAINING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WILD TYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; TELENCEPHALON;

EID: 33748876588     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2006.00206.x     Document Type: Article

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