Selective immunotoxic lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic cells: Effects on learning and memory in rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 619-627

  Baxter, Mark G ^a   Bucci, David J ^a   Gorman, Linda K ^b   Wiley, Ronald G ^c   Gallagher, Michela ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; SAPORIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL RAT; HABITUATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELENCEPHALON; VERTICAL LIMB DIAGONAL BAND;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; IMMUNOTOXINS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1;

EID: 84887548807     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033939     Document Type: Article

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