Morphological and numerical analysis of synaptic interactions between neurons in deep and superficial layers of the entorhinal cortex of the rat

Hippocampus

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 943-952

  van Haeffen, Theo ^a,b   Baks te Bulte, Luciënne ^a   Goede, Peter H ^a   Wouterlood, Floris G ^a   Witter, Menno P ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Hippocampal region; Intracortical organization; Parahippocampal region; Quantification; Reverberation; Synapses

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BIOTIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NEUROBIOTIN; TRACER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURON; ISOTOPE LABELING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SPINE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE SECTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOTIN; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INTERNEURONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0346801900     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.10144     Document Type: Article

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