Impaired spatial working memory and altered choline acetyltransferase (CHAT) immunoreactivity and nicotinic receptor binding in rats exposed to intermittent hypoxia during sleep

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 308-314

  Row, Barry W ^a   Kheirandish, Leila ^a   Cheng, Yu ^a   Rowell, Peter P ^a   Gozal, David ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Choline acetyltransferase; Immunoreactivity; Intermittent hypoxia

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN REGION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FOREBRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANOXIA; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SLEEP; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846423862     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2006.11.028     Document Type: Article

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