The memory-impairing effects of septal GABA receptor activation involve GABAergic septo-hippocampal projection neurons

Learning and Memory

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 833-841

  Krebs Kraft, Desiree L ^a,b,c   Wheeler, Marina G ^a   Parent, Marise B ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; DRUG VEHICLE; MUSCIMOL; SCOPOLAMINE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM;

ANIMALS; GABA AGONISTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; SCOPOLAMINE; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 38049053566     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.809407     Document Type: Article

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