Choline acetyltransferase-like immunoreactivity in the hippocampal formation of control subjects and patients with Alzheimer's disease

G Ransmayr, P Cervera, E Hirsch, M Ruberg, LB Hersh… - Neuroscience, 1989 - Elsevier
A qualitative and quantitative immunohistochemical study of cholinergic systems in the
human hippocampal formation was performed with an antibody against choline …

Novel approaches in the study of brain acetylcholine function: neuropharmacology, neuroanatomy, and behavior

DG Spencer Jr, E Horvath, P Luiten… - Senile Dementia of the …, 1985 - Springer
Over the last 30 years, it has become well-recognized that drugs blocking the muscarinic
subtype of acetylcholine (ACh) receptors in the brain have selective and reproducible effects …

Evaluation of cholinergic markers in Alzheimer's disease and in a model of cholinergic deficit

FJ Gil-Bea, M García-Alloza, J Domínguez, B Marcos… - Neuroscience …, 2005 - Elsevier
Cognitive deficits in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), have
been closely related to cholinergic deficits. We have compared different markers of …

Muscarinic partial agonists in the symptomatic treatment of Alzheimer's disease

R Kumar, E Cedar, MSG Clark, JM Loudon… - … : From Molecular Biology …, 1996 - Springer
In the late 1970s a profound and consistent loss of choline acetyl transferase (CT), a
presynaptic marker for acetylcholine (ACh), was observed in the brains of Alzheimer disease …

Loss of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits α4 and α7 in the cerebral cortex of Parkinson patients

L Burghaus, U Schütz, U Krempel, J Lindstrom… - Parkinsonism & related …, 2003 - Elsevier
Cerebral cortical cholinergic deficits, represented by a decrease in choline acetyltransferase
activity, severe losses of nicotinic binding sites as well as cell degeneration in the basal …

Nicotinic binding sites in cerebral cortex and hippocampus in Alzheimer's dementia

ED London, MJ Ball, SB Waller - Neurochemical research, 1989 - Springer
Postmortem cerebral neocortical and hippocampal samples were taken from patients who
died with dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT) and individuals without diagnoses of …

Heterogeneity and selectivity of the degeneration of cholinergic neurons in the basal forebrain of patients with Alzheimer's disease

S Lehéricy, ÉC Hirsch, P Cervera‐Piérot… - Journal of …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Cholinergic neurons were studied by immunohistochemistry, with an antiserum against
choline acetyltransferase (ChAT), in the basal forebrain (Ch1 to Ch4) of four patients with …

Muscarinic cholinoceptive neurons in the frontal cortex in Alzheimer's disease

H Schröder, E Giacobini, RG Struble, PGM Luiten… - Brain research …, 1991 - Elsevier
The cellular distribution of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor protein in the frontal cortex of
Alzheimer (AD) patients, age-matched and middle-aged controls was assessed …

A cholinergic connection between normal aging and senile dementia in the human hippocampus

EK Perry, RH Perry, PH Gibson, G Blessed… - Neuroscience …, 1977 - Elsevier
The cholinergic enzyme, choline acetyltransferase (CAT) has been estimated in autopsy
brain tissue obtained from elderly, mentally normal and abnormal hospital patients …

Muscarinic cholinergic receptor subtypes in hippocampus in human cognitive disorders

CJ Smith, EK Perry, RH Perry, JM Candy… - Journal of …, 1988 - Wiley Online Library
Total muscarinic receptor levels, the levels of the subtypes exhibiting high and low affinity for
pirenzepine, and the high‐and low‐affinity agonist states of the receptor were investigated in …