Developmental forebrain cholinergic lesion and environmental enrichment: Behaviour, CA1 cytoarchitecture and neurogenesis

Brain Research

Volumn 1252, Issue , 2009, Pages 172-182

  Fréchette, Mylène ^a   Rennie, Kerry ^a   Pappas, Bruce A ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

192 IgG saporin; Acetylcholine; Alzheimer's disease; CA1; Dendritic spines; Development; Golgi stain; Hippocampus; Neurogenesis; Rett syndrome; Water maze

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN;

ADULTHOOD; AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STAINING; SYNAPSE; TISSUE SECTION; WEANING; WORKING MEMORY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; DENDRITIC SPINES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTOXINS; PROSENCEPHALON; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1;

RATTUS;

EID: 58349093111     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.11.082     Document Type: Article

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