Activation of the medial septum reverses age-related hippocampal encoding deficits: A place field analysis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1841-1853

  Sava, Simona ^a,b   Markus, Etan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Carbachol; Cholinergic; Memory; Place field; Remapping

Indexed keywords

CARBACHOL;

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGING; ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEPTAL NUCLEI;

EID: 39749134786     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4629-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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