Dual transneuronal tracing in the rat entorhinal-hippocampal circuit by intracerebral injection of recombinant rabies virus vectors

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2009, Pages

  Ohara, Shinya ^a   Inoue, Ken Ichi ^a   Yamada, Masahiro ^a   Yamawaki, Takuma ^a   Koganezawa, Noriko ^a   Tsutsui, Ken Ichiro ^a   Witter, Menno P ^b,c   Iijima, Toshio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CA3 pyramidal cells; Double labeling; Entorhinal cortex; Hippocampus; Rabies virus vector; Retrograde transneuronal tracing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350385476     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.05.001.2009     Document Type: Article

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