Entorhinal cortex of the rat: Topographic organization of the cells of origin of the perforant path projection to the dentate gyrus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 398, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-48

  Dolorfo, Cynthia L ^a,c   Amaral, David G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Diamidino yellow; Fast blue; Hippocampus; Parvalbumin; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOPOGRAPHY;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENTATE GYRUS; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PARVALBUMINS; PERFORANT PATHWAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; TEMPORAL LOBE; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0032541365     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980817)398:1<25::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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