Cognitive Aging and the Primate Basal Forebrain Revisited: Disproportionate GABAergic Vulnerability Revealed

Table 1.

Nucleator probes to quantify size of ChAT and GAD67 immunopositive cells in basal forebrain of young and aged behaviorally characterized monkeys

Object Average objects measured ± SD Average CE CV
ChAT+ cells 763 ± 130.03 0.005 0.25
Rostral ChAT+ cells 205 ± 61.30 0.012 0.44
Caudal ChAT+ cells 558 ± 100.23 0.007 0.53
GAD67+ cells 350 ± 142.63 0.003 0.39
Rostral GAD67+ cells 140 ± 64.18 0.007 0.63
Caudal GAD67+ cells 210 ± 98.45 0.005 0.44
  • CV, Coefficient of variation.

  1. The Journal of Neuroscience vol. 43 no. 49 8425-8441
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