Parallel but separate inputs from limbic cortices to the mammillary bodies and anterior thalamic nuclei in the rat

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2334-2354

  Wright, Nicholas F ^a   Erichsen, Jonathan T ^b   Vann, Seralynne D ^a   O'Mara, Shane M ^c   Aggleton, John P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Entorhinal cortex; Fornix; Head direction system; Hippocampus; Lateral dorsal thalamic nucleus; Retrosplenial cortex; Subicular cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEMORY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SUBICULUM; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FLUORESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LATERAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL TRACT-TRACERS; NEURONS; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS;

EID: 77952211422     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22336     Document Type: Article

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