Electrophysiological characterization of interlaminar entorhinal connections: An essential link for re-entrance in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3037-3052

  Kloosterman, Fabian ^a,d   Van Haeften, Theo ^b   Witter, Menno P ^c   Lopes Da Silva, Fernando H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Current source density analysis; Entorhinal cortex; In vivo; Memory; Rat; Subiculum

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRENT SOURCE DENSITY ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SUBICULUM;

6-CYANO-7-NITROQUINOXALINE-2,3-DIONE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0346249769     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2003.03046.x     Document Type: Article

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