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The medial septum mediates impairment of prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle induced by a hippocampal seizure or phencyclidine.

Ma J, Shen B, Rajakumar N, Leung LS (2004) The medial septum mediates impairment of prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle induced by a hippocampal seizure or phencyclidine. Behav Brain Res 155(1):153-166. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2004.04.010

Summary: Deficits in sensorimotor gating, suppression of a motor response by a sensory stimulus are found in schizophrenic patients, as well as laboratory animals after administration of compounds such as phencyclidine (PCP). The authors lesioned the cholinergic system of the medial septum in rats with 0.14-0.21 µg injections of 192-Saporin (Cat. #IT-01) to examine the involvement of these neurons in sensorimotor gating. The authors suggest that GABAergic, but not cholinergic septohippocampal neurons mediate this deficit.

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