A novel entorhinal projection to the rat dentate gyrus: Direct innervation of proximal dendrites and cell bodies of granule cells and GABAergic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3322-3333

  Deller, Thomas ^a   Martinez, Albert ^b   Nitsch, Robert ^c   Frotscher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

entorhino hippocampal interaction; feedforward inhibition; GABA postembedding; laminar specificity; perforant pathway; Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; LEUKOAGGLUTININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; INNERVATION; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PERIKARYON; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029990388     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-10-03322.1996     Document Type: Article

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