Granular and dysgranular retrosplenial cortices provide qualitatively different contributions to spatial working memory: Evidence from immediate-early gene imaging in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 877-888

  Pothuizen, Helen H J ^a   Davies, Moira ^a   Albasser, Mathieu M ^a   Aggleton, John P ^a   Vann, Seralynne D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C Fos; Cingulate cortex; Immediate early gene; Rat; Zif268

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSGRANULAR RETROSPLENIUM CORTEX; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULAR RETROSPLENIUM CORTEX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LEARNING; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; ZIF 268 GENE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; CUES; DARKNESS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GYRUS CINGULI; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGHT; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 69549095948     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06881.x     Document Type: Article

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