Excitotoxic septal lesions result in spatial memory deficits and altered flexibility of hippocampal single-unit representations

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 1999, Pages 6661-6672

  Leutgeb, Stefan ^a   Mizumori, Sheri J Y ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Aging; GABA projection neurons; Hippocampus; Medial and lateral septum; Place cells; Spatial working memory

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; ILLUMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNEURON; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPATIAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0033179593     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-15-06661.1999     Document Type: Article

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