Tracing of the entorhinal-hippocampal pathway in vitro

Hippocampus

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-68

  Kluge, Annegret ^a   Hailer, Nils P ^a,c   Horvath, Tamas L ^a,b   Bechmann, Ingo ^a   Nitsch, Robert ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dentate gyrus; Dextran amine; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Lesion; Microglia; Perforant path; Phagocytosis; Slice culture; Tracing

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MICROGLIA; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; TIME;

ANIMALS; AXONS; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PERFORANT PATHWAY; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0031886516     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1998)8:1<57::AID-HIPO6>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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