Role of the lateral mammillary nucleus in the rat head direction circuit: A combined single unit recording and lesion study

Neuron

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1387-1397

  Blair, Hugh T ^a,b   Cho, Jeiwon ^a   Sharp, Patricia E ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MAMMILLARY BODY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THALAMUS;

EID: 0032442793     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80657-1     Document Type: Article

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