Amygdala input promotes spread of excitatory neural activity from perirhinal cortex to the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 2176-2184

  Kajiwara, Riichi ^a   Takashima, Ichiro ^a   Mimura, Yuka ^a   Witter, Menno P ^b   Iijima, Toshio ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY JUNCTION POTENTIAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COLORING AGENTS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0037389003     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01033.2002     Document Type: Article

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