Hippocampal cells encode places by forming small anatomical clusters

Neuroscience

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 994-1007

  Nakamura, N H ^a,b   Fukunaga, M ^c   Akama, K T ^a   Soga, T ^a,d   Ogawa, S ^a,e   Pavlides, C ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

cell assemblies; functional organization; Homer 1a; nearest neighbor distance; place cells; zif268

Indexed keywords

IMMEDIATE EARLY PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CARRIER PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77549086681     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.12.069     Document Type: Article

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