Characterization of age-related changes in synaptic transmission onto F344 rat basal forebrain cholinergic neurons using a reduced synaptic preparation

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 273-286

  Griffith, William H ^a   DuBois, Dustin W ^a   Fincher, Annette ^a   Peebles, Kathryn A ^a   Bizon, Jennifer L ^b   Murchison, David ^a  

^a TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Aging; Basal forebrain; Behavior; GABA; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; CALCIUM;

AGE; AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FOREBRAIN; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

AGING; BASAL FOREBRAIN; BEHAVIOR; GABA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MINIATURE POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84892589276     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00129.2013     Document Type: Article

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