Neonatal basal forebrain cholinergic hypofunction affects ultrasonic vocalizations and fear conditioning responses in preweaning rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-117

  Ricceri, Laura ^a   Cutuli, Debora ^a   Venerosi, Aldina ^a   Scattoni, Maria Luisa ^a   Calamandrei, Gemma ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; ChAT; Cholinergic development; Maternal potentiation; Ultrasounds

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; IGG SAPONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NEOCORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34547882744     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.05.035     Document Type: Article

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