Selective immunotoxic lesions of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons: Twenty years of research and new directions

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 611-618

  Baxter, Mark G ^a   Bucci, David J ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Alzheimer's disease; Development; Gaba; Saporin

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOTOXIN; NEUROTOXIN; PROTEIN P75; SAPORIN;

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FOREBRAIN; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; IMMUNOTOXINS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1;

EID: 84887550823     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0033781     Document Type: Article

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