Entorhinal cortex of the rat: Organization of intrinsic connections

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 398, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 49-82

  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

Dentate gyrus; Epilepsy; Hippocampus; Memory consolidation; Three dimensional reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; BIOTIN; DENTATE GYRUS; DEXTRANS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032541460     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19980817)398:1<49::AID-CNE4>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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