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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014

The role of p75NTR in cholinergic basal forebrain structure and function.

Zoran Boskovic, Fabienne Alfonsi, Bree A Rumballe, Sachini Fonseka, Francois Windels, Elizabeth J Coulson

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. The Role of BDNF in Multiple Sclerosis Neuroinflammation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  14. Up-regulation of proBDNF/p75Science advances · 2022
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  15. In vivo functions of p75Trends in pharmacological sciences · 2021
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  16. Ablation of p75Translational psychiatry · 2021
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6 authors.

Zoran BoskovicQueensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia.
Fabienne AlfonsiQueensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia.
Bree A RumballeQueensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia.
Sachini FonsekaQueensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia.
Francois WindelsQueensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia.
Elizabeth J CoulsonQueensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, 4072, Brisbane, Australia e.coulson@uq.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3783-6197

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of the p75 neurotrophin receptor (p75(NTR)) in adult cholinergic basal forebrain (cBF) neurons is unclear due to conflicting results from previous studies and to limitations of existing p75(NTR)-knock-out mouse models. In the present study we used a novel conditional knock-out line (ChAT-cre p75(in/in)) to assess the role of p75(NTR) in the cBF by eliminating p75(NTR) in choline acetyl-transferase-expressing cells. We show that the absence of p75(NTR) results in a lasting increase in cBF cell number, cell size, and cholinergic innervation to the cortex. Analysis of adult ChAT-cre p75(in/in) mice revealed that mutant animals show a similar loss of cBF neurons with age to that observed in wild-type animals, indicating that p75(NTR) does not play a significant role in mediating this age-related decline in cBF neuronal number. However, the increased cholinergic axonal innervation of the cortex, but not the hippocampus, corresponded to alterations in idiothetic but not allothetic navigation. These findings support a role for p75(NTR)-mediated regulation of cholinergic-dependent cognitive function, and suggest that the variability in previous reports of cBF neuron number may stem from limited spatial and temporal control of p75(NTR) expression in existing knock-out models.

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AnimalsCholinergic NeuronsCognitionFemaleMaleMaze LearningMiceMice, Inbred C57BLProsencephalonReceptors, Nerve Growth FactorSynaptic TransmissionNgfr protein, mouseReceptors, Nerve Growth Factorcholinergic basal forebrainhippocampusknock-outMorris water mazenavigationp75 neurotrophin receptor

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PMID25253850
PMCPMC6608337

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