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- Inflammation and Alzheimer’s disease (2000) (4327)
- Neuropathologic changes in Alzheimer's disease. (2003) (576)
- Lesions in nucleus basalis magnocellularis and medial septal area of rats produce qualitatively similar memory impairments (1985) (385)
- The neuropharmacological basis for the use of memantine in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. (2006) (366)
- Microglial Activation and β-Amyloid Deposit Reduction Caused by a Nitric Oxide-Releasing Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug in Amyloid Precursor Protein Plus Presenilin-1 Transgenic Mice (2002) (361)
- Cholinergic activity in autism: abnormalities in the cerebral cortex and basal forebrain. (2001) (347)
- Chronic neuroinflammation in rats reproduces components of the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease (1998) (332)
- The Nucleus Basalis Magnocellularis Cholinergic System: One Hundred Years of Progress (1997) (304)
- Attention and the frontal cortex as examined by simultaneous temporal processing (1988) (265)
- Memory impairments following basal forebrain lesions (1985) (262)
- Aminergic systems in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease (1987) (256)
- Individual differences in aging: Behavioral and neurobiological correlates (1989) (250)
- Loss of NMDA, but not GABA-A, binding in the brains of aged rats and monkeys (1991) (249)
- Age-related changes in multiple neurotransmitter systems in the monkey brain (1989) (229)
- The Neuron-Astrocyte-Microglia Triad in Normal Brain Ageing and in a Model of Neuroinflammation in the Rat Hippocampus (2012) (213)
- Non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) in Alzheimer's disease: old and new mechanisms of action (2004) (205)
- Chronic treatment of old rats with donepezil or galantamine: effects on memory, hippocampal plasticity and nicotinic receptors (2000) (192)
- Galantamine: effect on nicotinic receptor binding, acetylcholinesterase inhibition, and learning. (2001) (177)
- Recovery of neocortical choline acetyltransferase activity following ibotenic acid injection into the nucleus basalis of Meynert in rats (1984) (156)
- Memantine protects against LPS-induced neuroinflammation, restores behaviorally-induced gene expression and spatial learning in the rat (2006) (153)
- The effects of a novel NSAID on chronic neuroinflammation are age dependent☆ (1999) (149)
- Chronic Brain Inflammation Results in Cell Loss in the Entorhinal Cortex and Impaired LTP in Perforant Path-Granule Cell Synapses (2002) (148)
- Neuropathologic changes in Alzheimer's disease: potential targets for treatment. (2006) (137)
- Neuroinflammation Alters the Hippocampal Pattern of Behaviorally Induced Arc Expression (2005) (136)
- Basal forebrain lesions and memory: alterations in neurotensin, not acetylcholine, may cause amnesia. (1989) (134)
- The cytotoxicity of chronic neuroinflammation upon basal forebrain cholinergic neurons of rats can be attenuated by glutamatergic antagonism or cyclooxygenase-2 inhibition (2000) (133)
- Potential role of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors as executors of neurodegeneration resulting from diverse insults: focus on memantine. (2006) (127)
- Assessment of Spatial Memory Using the Radial Arm Maze and Morris Water Maze (2004) (124)
- Differential effects of selective immunotoxic lesions of medial septal cholinergic cells on spatial working and reference memory. (1996) (119)
- Behavioral and ultrastructural changes induced by chronic neuroinflammation in young rats (2000) (114)
- Basal forebrain lesions produce a dissociation of trial-dependent and trial-independent memory performance (1985) (110)
- Pathological and biochemical consequences of acute and chronic neuroinflammation within the basal forebrain cholinergic system of rats (1999) (107)
- Regional changes in the hippocampal density of AMPA and NMDA receptors across the lifespan of the rat (2000) (98)
- Caffeine attenuates lipopolysaccharide-induced neuroinflammation (2010) (96)
- Co-existence of galanin and acetylcholine: is galanin involved in memory processes and dementia? (1989) (96)
- Arginine vasopressin innoculates against age-related increases in sodium-dependent high affinity choline uptake and discrepancies in the content of temporal memory. (1986) (92)
- Anti-inflammatory property of the cannabinoid agonist WIN-55212-2 in a rodent model of chronic brain inflammation (2007) (89)
- LPS‐induced neuroinflammatory effects do not recover with time (2000) (88)
- MK-801, memantine and amantadine show neuroprotective activity in the nucleus basalis magnocellularis. (1995) (88)
- Cannabinoids attenuate the effects of aging upon neuroinflammation and neurogenesis (2009) (87)
- Attenuation of chronic neuroinflammation by a nitric oxide‐releasing derivative of the antioxidant ferulic acid (2004) (84)
- Chronic brain inflammation leads to a decline in hippocampal NMDA-R1 receptors (2004) (84)
- An hypothesis on the role of glucose in the mechanism of action of cognitive enhancers (2004) (84)
- Neuroprotection of acetylcholinergic basal forebrain neurons by memantine and neurokinin B (1997) (84)
- Peripheral administration of novel anti-inflammatories can attenuate the effects of chronic inflammation within the CNS (1999) (83)
- Nucleus basalis magnocellularis and memory: differential effects of two neurotoxins. (1990) (83)
- Accuracy of hippocampal network activity is disrupted by neuroinflammation: rescue by memantine. (2009) (81)
- 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, serotonin and memory. (1993) (79)
- Cannabinoid receptor stimulation is anti-inflammatory and improves memory in old rats (2008) (79)
- No interaction of memantine with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors approved for clinical use. (2000) (78)
- Altered cholinergic function in the basal forebrain of girls with Rett syndrome. (1999) (78)
- Acetyl-l-carnitine: Behavioral, electrophysiological, and neurochemical effects (1993) (77)
- Pharmacological manipulations of the substantia innominata-cortical cholinergic pathway (1984) (73)
- Basal forebrain neurons and memory: a biochemical, histological, and behavioral study of differential vulnerability to ibotenate and quisqualate. (1992) (73)
- APP and PS-1 mutations induce brain oxidative stress independent of dietary cholesterol: implications for Alzheimer’s disease (2004) (73)
- Altered neurochemical markers in Rett's syndrome (1991) (71)
- Glucose attenuates a morphine-induced decrease in hippocampal acetylcholine output: an in vivo microdialysis study in rats (1994) (68)
- Assessment of Spatial Memory Using the T Maze (1998) (67)
- RETT SYNDROME: NEUROBIOLOGICAL CHANGES UNDERLYING SPECIFIC SYMPTOMS (1997) (67)
- The toxicity of tumor necrosis factor-α upon cholinergic neurons within the nucleus basalis and the role of norepinephrine in the regulation of inflammation: implications for alzheimer's disease (2003) (62)
- Coadministration of Galanin Antagonist M40 with a Muscarinic M1 Agonist Improves Delayed Nonmatching to Position Choice Accuracy in Rats with Cholinergic Lesions (1998) (59)
- Insulin improves memory and reduces chronic neuroinflammation in the hippocampus of young but not aged brains (2015) (58)
- The Effects of Selective Cholinergic Basal Forebrain Lesions and Aging upon Expectancy in the Rat (1997) (58)
- Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation Disrupts Cholinergic Anti-Inflammatory Processes: A Role for Cholinergic α7 Nicotinic Receptors (2011) (58)
- Metabolic disturbances in diseases with neurological involvement. (2014) (57)
- Chemokine receptor 5 antagonist d-Ala-peptide T-amide reduces microglia and astrocyte activation within the hippocampus in a neuroinflammatory rat model of Alzheimer's disease (2005) (54)
- Mechanisms to prevent the toxicity of chronic neuroinflammation on forebrain cholinergic neurons. (2000) (54)
- Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons and Alzeimer's disease (1987) (53)
- Investigations of neurotoxicity and neuroprotection within the nucleus basalis of the rat (1994) (51)
- The neural mechanisms underlying cholinergic celldeath within the basal FOREBRAINfn2 fn2 Thepreparation of this chapter was supported in part by theNational Institute of Aging, RO1 AG10546, and theAlzheimers Association, IIRG-95-004. (1998) (50)
- The effects of mitochondrial failure upon cholinergic toxicity in the nucleus basalis. (1996) (49)
- Alterations in dopaminergic function in Rett syndrome. (1995) (48)
- Neurochemical alterations in Rett syndrome. (1993) (48)
- Poor blood glucose regulation predicts sleep and memory deficits in normal aged rats. (1990) (47)
- A primate model of Alzheimer's disease (1993) (47)
- Beta-amyloid deposition in the brains of rats chronically infused with thiorphan or lipopolysaccharide: the role of ascorbic acid in the vehicle (2002) (47)
- The interaction of acetylcholinergic and serotonergic neural systems on performance in a continuous non-matching to sample task (1990) (47)
- Age and duration of inflammatory environment differentially affect the neuroimmune response and catecholaminergic neurons in the midbrain and brainstem (2014) (46)
- Choline acetyltransferase activity and vesamicol binding in Rett syndrome and in rats with nucleus basalis lesions (1996) (46)
- Age-related recurrence of basal forebrain lesion-induced cholinergic deficits (1987) (46)
- Quantitative Volumetric Analyses of Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging from Rat with Chronic Neuroinflammation (2000) (46)
- The neuron-astrocyte-microglia triad involvement in neuroinflammaging mechanisms in the CA3 hippocampus of memory-impaired aged rats (2016) (45)
- Long-term estrogen therapy worsens the behavioral and neuropathological consequences of chronic brain inflammation. (2002) (45)
- Ginkgo biloba: A Cognitive Enhancer? (2002) (45)
- Basal forebrain lesions differentially alter galanin levels and acetylcholinergic receptors in the hippocampus and neocortex (1988) (43)
- Erratum to: Insulin improves memory and reduces chronic neuroinflammation in the hippocampus of young but not aged brains (2015) (41)
- Riluzole Partially Rescues Age-Associated, but not LPS-Induced, Loss of Glutamate Transporters and Spatial Memory (2013) (40)
- Analysis of galanin and the galanin antagonist M40 on delayed non-matching-to-position performance in rats lesioned with the cholinergic immunotoxin 192 IgG-saporin. (1997) (38)
- [3H]Ketanserin (Serotonin Type 2) Binding Increases in Rat Cortex Following Basal Forebrain Lesions with Ibotenic Acid (1986) (37)
- Effects of age and lesions of the nucleus basalis on contextual fear conditioning (1995) (36)
- Retention of maze performance inversely correlates with N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor number in hippocampus and frontal neocortex in the rat. (1989) (35)
- Serotonin influences the behavioral recovery of rats following nucleus basalis lesions (1991) (34)
- Calcium dysregulation via L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels and ryanodine receptors underlies memory deficits and synaptic dysfunction during chronic neuroinflammation (2015) (34)
- Anatomical substrate for neurotensin-acetylcholine interactions in the rat basal forebrain (1988) (33)
- Circadian Phase in Sleep-Disturbed Adolescents With a History of Substance Abuse: A Pilot Study (2008) (33)
- Age-related decrease in vulnerability to excitatory amino acids in the nucleus basalis (1996) (32)
- A nitric oxide-donating flurbiprofen derivative reduces neuroinflammation without interacting with galantamine in the rat. (2002) (32)
- Bilateral changes in neocortical [3H]pirenzepine and [3H]oxotremorine-M binding following unilateral lesions of the rat nucleus basalis magnocellularis: an autoradiographic study (1989) (32)
- The Emerging Role of the Interplay Among Astrocytes, Microglia, and Neurons in the Hippocampus in Health and Disease (2021) (31)
- Suboptimal dietary zinc intake increases aluminum accumulation into the rat brain (1983) (29)
- The lowdown on Ginkgo biloba. (2003) (29)
- Galanin peptide levels in hippocampus and cortex of galanin-overexpressing transgenic mice evaluated for cognitive performance (2002) (29)
- Differential effects of duration and age on the consequences of neuroinflammation in the hippocampus (2013) (29)
- Mecamylamine interactions with galantamine and donepezil: effects on learning, acetylcholinesterase, and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (2003) (29)
- Inflammation and aging: can endocannabinoids help? (2008) (28)
- Differential Neuroprotective and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of L-Type Voltage Dependent Calcium Channel and Ryanodine Receptor Antagonists in the Substantia Nigra and Locus Coeruleus (2015) (27)
- Neuroprotection by novel antagonists at the NMDA receptor channel and glycineB sites. (1998) (26)
- 192IgG-Saporin immunotoxin and ibotenic acid lesions of nucleus basalis and medial septum produce comparable deficits on delayed nonmatching to position in rats (1996) (25)
- Pathological and Biochemical Studies of Chronic Neuroinflammation May Lead to Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease (2000) (25)
- Individual differences in aging: behavioral and neural analyses. (1991) (24)
- Animal Models of Alzheimer’s Disease (1992) (24)
- Alterations in the Interplay between Neurons, Astrocytes and Microglia in the Rat Dentate Gyrus in Experimental Models of Neurodegeneration (2017) (24)
- Basal forebrain and memory: Neurotoxic lesions impair serial reversals of a spatial discrimination (1988) (23)
- Basal Forebrain, Memory and Attention (1991) (22)
- Complex maze performance in rats: effects of noradrenergic depletion and cholinergic blockade. (1990) (22)
- Differential rescue of spatial memory deficits in aged rats by L-type voltage-dependent calcium channel and ryanodine receptor antagonism (2014) (21)
- Metabolic profile of NO-flurbiprofen (HCT1026) in rat brain and plasma: a LC-MS study. (2002) (21)
- Short- and long-term effects of nucleus basalis magnocellularis lesions on cortical levels of somatostatin and its receptors in the rat (1993) (19)
- Can the benefits of cannabinoid receptor stimulation on neuroinflammation, neurogenesis and memory during normal aging be useful in AD prevention? (2012) (18)
- Brain infusion of lipopolysaccharide increases uterine growth as a function of estrogen replacement regimen: suppression of uterine estrogen receptor-alpha by constant, but not pulsed, estrogen replacement. (2007) (18)
- Cognitive enhancers: Potential strategies and experimental results (1989) (17)
- The influence of ingested aluminum upon norepinephrine and dopamine levels in the rat brain. (1981) (17)
- Microglial distribution, branching, and clearance activity in aged rat hippocampus are affected by astrocyte meshwork integrity: evidence of a novel cell‐cell interglial interaction (2018) (16)
- Time-Dependent Compensatory Responses to Chronic Neuroinflammation in Hippocampus and Brainstem: The Potential Role of Glutamate Neurotransmission (2013) (16)
- Activity of the enzymes dopamine-beta-hydroxylase and phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase in discrete brain regions of the copper-zinc deficient rat following aluminum ingestion. (1982) (15)
- Positron emission tomography in the Rett syndrome: clinical, biochemical and pathological correlates. (1992) (14)
- Effects of excitatory amino acid lesions upon neurokinin B and acetylcholine neurons in the nucleus basalis of the rat (1995) (14)
- Nucleus basalis magnocellularis: optimal coordinates for selective reduction of choline acetyltransferase in frontal neocortex by ibotenic acid injections (2004) (13)
- Rapamycin inhibits mTOR/p70S6K activation in CA3 region of the hippocampus of the rat and impairs long term memory (2017) (13)
- Rett syndrome: evidence for normal dopaminergic function. (1996) (13)
- The presence of the appswe mutation in mice does not increase the vulnerability of cholinergic basal forebrain neurons to neuroinflammation (2004) (12)
- Forest yield science. (1990) (12)
- Neuroprotection and selective vulnerability of neurons within the nucleus basalis magnocellularis (1995) (11)
- Age-associated alterations in the time-dependent profile of pro- and anti-inflammatory proteins within the hippocampus in response to acute exposure to interleukin-1β (2014) (11)
- Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings (2010) (11)
- P4-214 A nitric oxide-releasing derivative of the antioxidant ferulic acid, NCX 2057, attenuates chronic neuroinflammation in rat (2004) (11)
- Glucose attenuation of paradoxical sleep deficits in old rats. (1992) (11)
- Animal models of Alzheimer's disease: are they valid and useful? (1990) (10)
- Assessment of Spatial Memory (1999) (10)
- Erratum to: Insulin improves memory and reduces chronic neuroinflammation in the hippocampus of young but not aged brains (2015) (9)
- Differential vulnerability of basal forebrain cholinergic and NADPH diaphorase cells to ibotenate and quisqualate (1992) (8)
- Nitric oxide formation does not underlie the memory deficits produced by ibotenate injections into the nucleus basalis of rats. (1994) (8)
- Neurobiological Consequences of Long-Term Estrogen Therapy (2004) (7)
- [3H]ketanserin binding increases in monkey cortex following basal forebrain lesions with ibotenic acid (1986) (7)
- Behavioral, cellular, and molecular biological studies of aged nonhuman primates. (1990) (7)
- Pharmacological manipulation of cannabinoid neurotransmission reduces neuroinflammation associated with normal aging (2012) (5)
- Pharmacological Manipulation of the Substantia Innominata‐Cortical Cholinergic Pathway a (1985) (5)
- Chronic Intracerebral LPS as a Model of Neuroinflammation (2003) (5)
- Novel glycineB antagonists show neuroprotective activityin vivo (2005) (4)
- Amnesia and alzheimer's disease: Which neurotransmitter system is responsible? (1988) (4)
- Estrogen replacement regimen and brain infusion of lipopolysaccharide differentially alter steroid receptor expression in the uterus and hypothalamus (2007) (4)
- Nefiracetam and physostigmine: separate and combined effects on learning in older rabbits (2004) (4)
- P2-192 The computation of mannitol-induced changes in mouse brain volume using sequential MRI and an iterative principal component analysis (2004) (3)
- Age-related changes in monkey and rodent neurochemistry (1993) (3)
- Your Brain on Food (2010) (3)
- Dietary Factors That Influence the Neural Substrates of Memory (1992) (3)
- The neuron-astrocyte-microglia triad in normal brain aging and a model of neuroinflammation in the rat. (2011) (2)
- Why Do I Feel This Way (2017) (2)
- Animal Models of Cholinergic Dysfunction Related to Aging and Senile Dementia (1987) (2)
- The role of the glutamatergic system in learning and memory - bahavioural studies (1995) (1)
- Erratum: 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, serotonin and memory (Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (1993) 266 (1097-1105)) (1994) (1)
- Calcium dysregulation via L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels and ryanodine receptors underlies memory deficits and synaptic dysfunction during chronic neuroinflammation (2015) (1)
- Nutrition, cognition, and memory (1989) (1)
- How Does My Brain Accomplish So Much (2017) (1)
- P1-359 DAPTA targets CCR5 chemokine receptors and suppresses microglial activation in a neuroinflammatory rat model of Alzheimer's disease (2004) (1)
- The Influence of Neurotensin Upon Cholinergic Function (1992) (1)
- Can the benefits of cannabinoid receptor stimulation on neuroinflammation, neurogenesis and memory during normal aging be useful in AD prevention? (2012) (1)
- Memantine provides neuroprotection in animal models at therapeutically relevant doses (2000) (1)
- 129. Blockade of L-type voltage dependent calcium channels or ryanodine receptors during chronic neuroinflammation improves spatial memory and reduces expression of inflammatory markers (2014) (1)
- Introduction Food, Drugs, and You (2010) (0)
- Open peer commentary Inflammation and Alzheimer's disease (2000) (0)
- The effect of a novel NO-NSAID on chronic neuroinflammation (1998) (0)
- S12 PRECLINICAL BASIS FOR MEMANTINE EFFICACY IN ALZHEIMER??S DISEASE (2006) (0)
- Insulin improves memory and reduces chronic neuroinflammation in the hippocampus of young but not aged brains (2015) (0)
- UN CO RR EC TE D PR OO F Neurobiological Consequences of Long-Term Estrogen Therapy (0)
- Neurodegenerative diseases and memory (2007) (0)
- The Immunolesioned Animal as a Model of Transmitter Dysfunction (2000) (0)
- Riluzole Partially Rescues Age-Associated, but not LPS-Induced, Loss of Glutamate Transporters and Spatial Memory (2013) (0)
- Sleeping Versus Waking (2010) (0)
- Remnants of an Ancient Past (2010) (0)
- Memantine restores impaired synaptic plasticity by reducing synaptic noise (2000) (0)
- Euphoria, Depression, & Madness (2010) (0)
- An investigation of mechanisms to prevent the cytotoxicity of chronic neuroinflammation upon basal forebrain cholinergic neurons in young rats (2000) (0)
- The basal forebrain and memory: influence of drugs and aging (1995) (0)
- Neurochemical Mechanisms Mediating Recovery of Function (1984) (0)
- Elevated glutamate transport by GLT1 may attenuate inflammation-induced memory impairment (2011) (0)
- Memories, Magic, & a Major Addiction (2010) (0)
- Acetylcholinesterase inhibition, learning, and nicotinic receptors (2000) (0)
- Elevated glutamate transport by GLT1 attenuates inflammation-induced memory impairment (2011) (0)
- Stimulation of endocannabinoid receptors is required for reduction of neuroinflammation and restoration of neurogenesis in the aged brain (2011) (0)
- Differential Neuroprotective and Anti-Inflammatory Effects of L-Type Voltage Dependent Calcium Channel and Ryanodine Receptor Antagonists in the Substantia Nigra and Locus Coeruleus (2014) (0)
- P3-353: Regional susceptibility to inflammation: Neuron-glia interactions in the hippocampus and substantia nigra and rescue by the NMDA antagonist memantine (2008) (0)
- The role of neuroinflammation in the determination of regional and neuronal vulnerability in Alzheimer's disease (2011) (0)
- Your Brain’s Anchor to Reality (2010) (0)
- O3-04-01 Neurobiological consequences of chronic and variable estrogen therapy in the presence of long term neuroinflammation (2004) (0)
- David S. Olton (1994) (0)
- Simple Molecules That Turn You On and Off (2010) (0)
- Marijuana in the Brain (2010) (0)
- CardiopulmonaryArrestandResuscitationDisrupts CholinergicAnti-InflammatoryProcesses:ARole forCholinergic7NicotinicReceptors (2011) (0)
- Brain Enhancement and Other Magical Beliefs (2010) (0)
- Glia-neuron interaction in the hippocampus of the rat is modified by aging and inflammation (2010) (0)
- Functional Neuroanatomy of Learning and Memory (2011) (0)
- P2-398: Role Of endocannabinoids on neuroinflammation, memory and neurogenesis in aged rats (2008) (0)
- P4-420 Anti-inflammatory actions of the endocannabinoid system in a rodent model of chronic neuroinflammation (2006) (0)
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