Laminar and Dorsoventral Molecular Organization of the Medial Entorhinal Cortex Revealed by Large-scale Anatomical Analysis of Gene Expression

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ramsden, Helen L ^a   Sürmeli, Gülşen ^a   McDonagh, Steven G ^a   Nolan, Matthew F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b GKVK Campus   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; PIPELINES; THROUGHPUT;

ANATOMICAL ANALYSIS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GENES EXPRESSION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARGE-SCALES; MOLECULAR ORGANIZATION; NEURAL CIRCUITS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SUPERFICIAL LAYERS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; CELL ADHESION RELATED GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ION CHANNEL RELATED GENE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; SYNAPSE RELATED GENE; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; C57BL MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR IMAGING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922230193     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004032     Document Type: Article

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