Selective lesion of septal cholinergic neurons in rats impairs acquisition of a delayed matching to position T-maze task by delaying the shift from a response to a place strategy

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 356-360

  Fitz, Nicholas F ^a   Gibbs, Robert B ^b   Johnson, David A ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cholinergic denervation; Hippocampus; Place strategy; Response strategy; Spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOTOXIN; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC ACTIVITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; COGNITION DISORDERS; CUES; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOTOXINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57149122575     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2008.08.016     Document Type: Article

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