Connections of the hippocampal formation in humans: I. The mossy fiber pathway

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 385, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 325-351

  Lim, Chun ^a,b,c   Blume, Howard W ^c   Madsen, Joseph R ^d,e   Saper, Clifford B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocytin; Calbindin D28K; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Memory

Indexed keywords

BIOCYTIN; CALBINDIN; DEXTRAN;

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MALE; MEMORY; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CELL COUNT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPILEPSY, TEMPORAL LOBE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS;

EID: 0030846691     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970901)385:3<325::AID-CNE1>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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