Projections from the nucleus reuniens thalami to the entorhinal cortex, hippocampal field CA1, and the subiculum in the rat arise from different populations of neurons

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 364, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 637-650

  Dolleman Van Der Weel, M J ^a   Witter, M P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

hippocampal region; midline thalamus; neuroanatomical tracing; parahippocampal cortex; topography

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; FLUOROGOLD;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TERMINOLOGY; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0030022675     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19960122)364:4<637::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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