Bilateral NMDA lesions centered on the postrhinal cortex have minimal effects on hippocampal place cell firing

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-227

  Xerad, Ludek ^a   Liu, Ping ^a   Bilkey, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Perirhinal; Place cell; Postrhinal; Spatial

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CATHETERIZATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 62149128937     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20517     Document Type: Article

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