The abrupt development of adult-like grid cell firing in the medial entorhinal cortex

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn , Issue APRIL2012, 2012, Pages 1-13

  Wills, Thomas J ^a   Barry, Caswell ^a,b   Cacucci, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Entorhinal cortex; Grid cell; Hippocampus

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRID CELL; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84863624361     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2012.00021     Document Type: Article

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