This is the first study that suggests that FIN has regionally selective modulatory effect on cholinergic transmission and that inhibition of AchE may be at least partly responsible for adverse effects of FIN treatment on lipid peroxidation in the thalamus, but not in other brain regions in acute TAA-induced HE (Figs 5 and 6). This evidence concerns the gene ACHE and hereditary elliptocytosis.