Lesions of the Basal Forebrain Cholinergic System in Mice Disrupt Idiothetic Navigation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hamlin, Adam S ^a,b   Windels, Francois ^a   Boskovic, Zoran ^a   Sah, Pankaj ^a   Coulson, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTROPHIN RECEPTOR P75; SAPORIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DAMAGE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COGNITION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IDIOTHETIC NAVIGATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; RECALL; ROTAROD TEST; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL LEARNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMALS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; FEAR; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROSENCEPHALON; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84872196150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053472     Document Type: Article

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