Behavioral Effects of Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Lesions in Young Adult and Aging Rats.

The interactive effects of age and cholinergic damage were assessed behaviorally in young and middle-aged rats. Rats were lesioned at either 3 or 17 months of age by injection of 192 IgG-saporin immunotoxin into the medial septum and the nucleus basalis magnocellularis, and they were then tested on...

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Published in:	Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 119; no. 4; pp. 933 - 946
Main Authors:	Paban, Véronique, Chambon, Caroline, Jaffard, Magali
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association August 2005
Subjects:	Age factors in memory Brain function localization Laboratory rats
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