Selective cholinergic depletion of the hippocampus spares both behaviorally induced arc transcription and spatial learning and memory

Hippocampus

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-234

  Fletcher, Bonnie R ^a   Baxter, Mark G ^b   Guzowski, John F ^c   Shapiro, Matthew L ^a   Rapp, Peter R ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Immediate early gene; Medial septum; Saporin

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ARC; SAPORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BRAIN FORNIX; CHOLINERGIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXICITY; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CUES; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DENERVATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FORNIX (BRAIN); HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 33947251331     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20261     Document Type: Article

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