Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 1061-1072 , July 2005

Aging and subcellular localization of m2 muscarinic autoreceptor in basalocortical neurons in vivo

  • Marion Décossas

      Affiliations

    • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5541, Laboratoire d’Histologie-Embryologie, Université Victor Ségalen-Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5162, Laboratoire de Génomique Fonctionnelle des Trypanosomatides, ATIPE Interaction Mitochondrie-Cytosquelette chez les Trypanosomes, Université Victor Ségalen-Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Évelyne Doudnikoff

      Affiliations

    • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5541, Laboratoire d’Histologie-Embryologie, Université Victor Ségalen-Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Bertrand Bloch

      Affiliations

    • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5541, Laboratoire d’Histologie-Embryologie, Université Victor Ségalen-Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • ,
  • Véronique Bernard

      Affiliations

    • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5541, Laboratoire d’Histologie-Embryologie, Université Victor Ségalen-Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux Cedex, France
    • Biologie de la Synapse Cholinergique, Université René Descartes—Paris 5, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, 75270 Paris Cedex 06, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +33 1 42 86 20 68; fax: +33 1 42 86 33 99.

Received 12 March 2004 ,Revised 7 September 2004 ,Accepted 24 September 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2004.09.007

Neurobiology of Aging
Volume 26, Issue 7 , Pages 1061-1072 , July 2005

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