Transplanted embryonic entorhinal neurons make functional synapses in adult host hippocampus

Brain Research

Volumn 788, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 202-206

  Zhou, Wenbo ^a   Raisman, Geoffrey ^b   Zhou, Changfu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b National Insititute for Medical Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extracellular recording; Graft; Reinnervation; Repair

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERFORANT NERVE TRACT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPIKE; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032579793     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01539-4     Document Type: Article

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