Cognitive and neurological deficits induced by early and prolonged basal forebrain cholinergic hypofunction in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 162-172

  Ricceri, Laura ^a   Minghetti, Luisa ^b   Moles, Anna ^c   Popoli, Patrizia ^b   Confaloni, Annamaria ^b   De Simone, Roberta ^b   Piscopo, Paola ^b   Scattoni, Maria Luisa ^a   Di Luca, Monica ^d   Calamandrei, Gemma ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CNR 43 00137 ^*  (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Cyclooxygenases; EEG; Memory; Presenilins; Social transmission of food preferences

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; IMMUNOTOXIN; MESSENGER RNA; PRESENILIN 1;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOOD; FOREBRAIN; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NEOCORTEX; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECORDING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; AMYLOID BETA-PROTEIN PRECURSOR; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; N-GLYCOSYL HYDROLASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PRESENILIN-1; PRESENILIN-2; PROSENCEPHALON; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3543083979     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2004.05.025     Document Type: Article

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