The hippocampus of the reeler mutant mouse: Fiber segregation in area CA1 depends on the position of the postsynaptic target cells

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 254-267

  Deller, Thomas ^a   Drakew, Alexander ^a   Heimrich, Bernd ^a   Förster, Eckart ^a   Tielsch, Albrecht ^a   Frotscher, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alvear path; Axonal pathfinding; Cajal Retzius cells; Commissural fibers; Entorhinal fibers; Layer specificity; Pyramidal cells

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN COMMISSURE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032913647     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7021     Document Type: Article

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