Age-related changes in rostral basal forebrain cholinergic and GABAergic projection neurons: Relationship with spatial impairment

Neurobiology of Aging

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 845-862

  Bañuelos, Cristina ^a,b   LaSarge, Candi L ^c   McQuail, Joseph A ^d   Hartman, John J ^e   Gilbert, Ryan J ^a,b   Ormerod, Brandi K ^a,b   Bizon, Jennifer L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Aging; GABA; Hippocampus; Inhibitory; Memory; NeuN; Neuron number; Spatial learning; Stereology; Water maze

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR COMMISSURE; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OLFACTORY BULB; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STEREOLOGY;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NUCLEAR; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 84870485250     PISSN: 01974580     EISSN: 15581497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2012.06.013     Document Type: Article

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