Perirhinal and postrhinal cortices of the rat: Interconnectivity and connections with the entorhinal cortex

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 391, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-321

  Burwell, Rebecca D ^a   Amaral, David G ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterograde; Hippocampus; Memory; Polysensory cortex; Retrograde

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; DEXTRAN; FAST BLUE; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; TRACER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; INJECTIONS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032536540     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980216)391:3<293::AID-CNE2>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

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