Presubiculum layer III conveys retrosplenial input to the medial entorhinal cortex

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 881-895

  Kononenko, Natalia L ^a,b   Witter, Menno P ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Parahippocampal region; Retrosplenial cortex; Spatial navigation; Synapse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DENDRITE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RETROSPLENIAL CORTEX; SENSORY STIMULATION; SUBICULUM;

ANIMALS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84858748619     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20949     Document Type: Article

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