Fig. 7From: Focused ultrasound-induced blood-brain barrier opening improves adult hippocampal neurogenesis and cognitive function in a cholinergic degeneration dementia rat modelDiagrammatic summary of the relationship between cholinergic degeneration and FUS treatment. a Cholinergic degeneration induced by injecting 192 IgG-saporin (SAP) into the lateral ventricle downregulated the expression level of ChAT, BDNF, EGR1, and AChE, thereby causing impaired cognitive function by decreases of neurogenesis, synaptic plasticity, and neuroprotective function. In contrast, b FUS treatment targeting bilateral hippocampus improved cognitive function by upregulation of BDNF, EGR1, and AChEBack to article page