Intrinsic cholinergic neurons in the hippocampus: Fact or artifact?

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Blusztajn, Jan Krzysztof ^a   Rinnofner, Jasmine ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons; Choline acetyltransferase ChAT; Hippocampus; Septum; Slc18a3; Transgenic mouse models; Vesicular acetylcholine transporter

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CRE RECOMBINASE; VESICULAR ACETYLCHOLINE TRANSPORTER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL POPULATION; CELL SELECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHAT GENE; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 84993940197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16633563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnsyn.2016.00006     Document Type: Article

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