Publication Date:
1982-11-19
Description:
The effect of ethanol on hippocampal axonal sprouting was studied with a histochemical technique for identifying acetylcholinesterase. Unilateral lesion of the entorhinal cortex in adult rats produced an increase in the density of acetylcholinesterase staining in the outer molecular layer and a concomitant increase in the width of the pale-staining commissural-associational zone of the dentate gyrus. Other rats were given ethanol (11.3 +/- 0.45 grams per kilogram) for 2 weeks before and 9 days after receiving the lesion. Ethanol abolished the expansion of the commissural-associated zone. The effect of ethanol on sprouting axons suggests that it may inhibit recovery of function after brain injury.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉West, J R -- Lind, M D -- Demuth, R M -- Parker, E S -- Alkana, R L -- Cassell, M -- Black, A C Jr -- AA-03884/AA/NIAAA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1982 Nov 19;218(4574):809-10.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7134977" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Axons/drug effects/*physiology
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Ethanol/*pharmacology
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Female
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Hippocampus/drug effects/*physiology
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Male
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Rats
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Rats, Inbred Strains
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
