Butyrylcholinesterase activity in the rat forebrain and upper brainstem: Postnatal development and adult distribution

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 204, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 640-657

  Geula, Changiz ^a   Nagykery, Nicholas ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholinesterase; Butyrylcholinesterase; Cerebral Cortex; Cholinesterase; Development; Developmentally Transient; Rat Brain

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; CHOLINESTERASE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN STEM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN STEM; BUTYRYLCHOLINESTERASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33947659446     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.12.015     Document Type: Article

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