Untangling neural networks with dual retrograde transsynaptic viral infection

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2009, Pages

  Ohara, Shinya ^a   Inoue, Ken Ichi ^a   Witter, Menno P ^b   Iijima, Toshio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dual retrograde tracing; Neural network; Rabies virus; Rat hippocampus; Transsynaptic infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956108171     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.032.2009     Document Type: Review

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