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Memantine Protects Cholinergic And Glutamatergic Septal Neurons From Aβ1-40-Induced Toxicity, Luis V. Colom, María Teresa Castañeda Licón, D. Aleman, Ahmed Touhami
Memantine Protects Cholinergic And Glutamatergic Septal Neurons From Aβ1-40-Induced Toxicity, Luis V. Colom, María Teresa Castañeda Licón, D. Aleman, Ahmed Touhami
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The medial septal region (medial septum and diagonal band of Broca, MS/DB) controls hippocampal excitability and synaptic plasticity. MS/DB cholinergic neurons degenerate early in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The presence of MS/DB glutamatergic neurons that project to the hippocampus and are vulnerable to Aβ suggests that excitotoxicity plays a role in AD septal degeneration and hippocampal dysfunction. To demonstrate the presence of excitotoxicity in Aβinduced septal damage, we compared rats injected with Aβ1–40 into the MS/DB with animals treated with memantine prior, during and after Aβ1–40 injections. Controls were injected with phosphate buffered saline (PBS). MS/DB cholinergic, glutamatergic and GABAergic neurons …