Publication Date:
1984-01-06
Description:
Cultures derived from rat cerebral hemispheres were sequentially stained for acetylcholinesterase activity and for either somatostatin-like immunoreactivity or cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity. Somatostatin-like immunoreactivity was found to coexist with acetylcholinesterase activity in individual neurons of several morphological subtypes, but cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity and acetycholinesterase activity were never seen in the same neurons. These findings suggest a specific anatomical association, perhaps even an overlap, of the cholinergic and somatostatinergic systems in the mammalian cerebrum, and indicate that the combined deficiencies of somatostatin and cholinergic markers in Alzheimer's dementia and senile dementia of the Alzheimer type may be of pathophysiological importance.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Delfs, J R -- Zhu, C H -- Dichter, M A -- HD06276/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- NS00608/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- NS15362/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1984 Jan 6;223(4631):61-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6140757" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Acetylcholinesterase/*metabolism
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Animals
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Brain/*cytology/enzymology
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Brain Chemistry
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Cells, Cultured
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique
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Neurons/*analysis/enzymology
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Rats
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Sincalide/analysis
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Somatostatin/*analysis
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
