Central cholinergic pathways in the rat: an overview based on an alternative nomenclature (Ch1-Ch6).

TL;DR: This study, using fMRI in conjunction with masked stimulus presentations, represents an initial step toward determining the role of the amygdala in nonconscious processing.

TL;DR: Although AT(1) receptors mediate most of the known actions of Ang II, the AT(2) receptor contributes to the regulation of blood pressure and renal function and the development of specific nonpeptide receptor antagonists has led to major advances in the physiology, pharmacology, and therapy of the renin-angiotensin system.

TL;DR: It is suggested that fimbrial transections resulted in retrograde degeneration of cholinergic septo-hippocampal neurons and that NGF treatment strongly attenuated this lesion-induced degeneration.

TL;DR: Evidence is presented that the nucleus basalis-neocortical cholinergic system contributes greatly to visual attentional function, but not to mnemonic processes per se, and it is suggested that nucleus basali-amygdala cholinerential projections have a role in the retention of affective conditioning while brainstem cholinery projections to the thalamus and midbrain dopamine neurons affect basic arousal processes.

TL;DR: Biochemical and immunocytochemical data indicate that a cholinergic projection to the sensorimotor cortex of cats arises from the basal forebrain, and this pathway may play a vital role in memory and cognition.

TL;DR: Part of the presentation pertains to the concept of the ventral strio-pallidal system, and although this concept is not directly comparable to Papez’s notion of the “motor olfactory striatum” (Papez, 1929), it has no doubt been inspired by his insight and imagination.

TL;DR: The distribution of acetylcholinesterase and loss of enzyme in different layers and areas after medial septal lesions were correlated with the distribution of degenerating axons and terminals in Fink-Heimer preparations of the same material.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the major source of the cholinergic innervation of the amygdala is the magnocellular AChE-positive neurones in the lateral preoptic area and adjacent regions of the ventral forebrain.