Nerve growth factor affects uninjured, adult rat septohippocampal cholinergic neurons

A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity

1961 • 25,114 citations

A modification of the Lowry procedure to simplify protein determination in membrane and lipoprotein samples

1978 • 6,494 citations

A rapid radiochemical method for the determination of choline acetyltransferase

1975 • 2,406 citations

Nerve growth factor promotes survival of septal cholinergic neurons after fimbrial transections

1986 • 1,458 citations

Continuous infusion of nerve growth factor prevents basal forebrain neuronal death after fimbria fornix transection.

1986 • 1,063 citations

Nerve Growth Factor Treatment After Brain Injury Prevents Neuronal Death

1987 • 942 citations

Levels of nerve growth factor and its mRNA in the central nervous system of the rat correlate with cholinergic innervation.

1985 • 941 citations

THE NERVE GROWTH FACTOR: PURIFICATION AS A 30,000-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT PROTEIN

1969 • 920 citations

NGF-Mediated increase of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) in the neonatal rat forebrain: Evidence for a physiological role of NGF in the brain?

1983 • 725 citations

The nerve growth factor: thirty-five years later.

1987 • 720 citations

Specific retrograde transport of nerve growth factor (NGF) from neocortex to nucleus basalis in the rat

1984 • 598 citations

Atlas of cholinergic neurons in the forebrain and upper brainstem of the macaque based on monoclonal choline acetyltransferase immunohistochemistry and acetylcholinesterase histochemistry

1984 • 586 citations

Studies on the expression of the beta nerve growth factor (NGF) gene in the central nervous system: level and regional distribution of NGF mRNA suggest that NGF functions as a trophic factor for several distinct populations of neurons.

1986 • 528 citations

Development and regional expression of beta nerve growth factor messenger RNA and protein in the rat central nervous system.

1986 • 525 citations

Nerve growth factor increases choline acetyl-transferase but not survival or fiber outgrowth of cultured fetal septal cholinergic neurons

1985 • 491 citations

Chronic intraventricular injections of nerve growth factor elevate hippocampal choline acetyltransferase activity in adult rats with partial septo-hippocampal lesions

1984 • 446 citations

Distribution of neuronal receptors for nerve growth factor in the rat

1986 • 398 citations

Nerve growth factor and Alzheimer's disease

1986 • 378 citations

Nerve growth factor increases choline acetyltransferase activity in developing basal forebrain neurons

1986 • 377 citations

Nerve growth factor mRNA in peripheral and central rat tissues and in the human central nervous system: Lesion effects in the rat brain and levels in Alzheimer's disease

1986 • 335 citations

Development of septal cholinergic neurons in culture: plating density and glial cells modulate effects of NGF on survival, fiber growth, and expression of transmitter-specific enzymes

1988 • 321 citations

Nerve growth factor (NGF) stimulation of cholinergic telencephalic neurons in aggregating cell cultures

1982 • 291 citations

Developmental Neurobiology and the Natural History of Nerve Growth Factor

1982 • 289 citations

Rescue of lesioned septal cholinergic neurons by nerve growth factor: specificity and requirement for chronic treatment

1988 • 213 citations

Basal forebrain magnocellular neurons stain for nerve growth factor receptor: Correlation with cholinergic cell bodies and effects of axotomy

1987 • 193 citations

Cholinergic denervation of the rat hippocampus by fimbrial transection leads to a transient accumulation of nerve growth factor (NGF) without change in mRNANGF content

1986 • 188 citations

Potential use of nerve growth factor to treat Alzheimer's disease

1989 • 174 citations

Behavioural and neurochemical effects of chronic intraventricular injections of nerve growth factor in adult rats with fimbria lesions

1985 • 172 citations

The localization and distribution of high affinity β-nerve growth factor binding sites in the central nervous system of the adult rat. A light microscopic autoradiographic study using [125I]β-nerve growth factor

1987 • 169 citations

Time course of the elevation of nerve growth factor (NGF) content in the hippocampus and septum following lesions of the septohippocampal pathway in rats

1986 • 144 citations

Increased beta-nerve growth factor messenger RNA and protein levels in neonatal rat hippocampus following specific cholinergic lesions

1987 • 132 citations

NGF effects on developing forebrain cholinergic neurons are regionally specific

1987 • 120 citations

Nerve growth factor selectively increases cholinergic markers but not neuropeptides in rat basal forebrain in culture

1987 • 113 citations

NGF Amplifies Expression of NGF Receptor Messenger RNA in Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons of Rats

1989 • 97 citations

Partial reversal of lesion-induced deficits in cortical cholinergic markers by nerve growth factor

1986 • 75 citations

Acetylcholine-rich transplants in the hippocampus: influence of intrinsic growth factors and application of nerve growth factor on choline acetyltransferase activity

1985 • 47 citations

Changes in acetylcholinesterase activity in hippocampus produced by septal lesions in the rat

1973 • 36 citations

Three independent biological assays for nerve growth factor: No measurable activity in human sera

1982 • 33 citations

Distinct influences of nerve growth factor and a central cholinergic trophic factor on medial septal explants

1987 • 31 citations