The medial entorhinal cortex is necessary for temporal organization of hippocampal neuronal activity

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1123-1132

  Schlesiger, Magdalene I ^a,b   Cannova, Christopher C ^a   Boublil, Brittney L ^a   Hales, Jena B ^c   Mankin, Emily A ^a   Brandon, Mark P ^a   Leutgeb, Jill K ^a   Leibold, Christian ^b   Leutgeb, Stefan ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CHOLECYSTOKININ;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOSSY FIBER; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPORAL LOBE; TEMPORAL ORGANIZATION; THETA RHYTHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NERVE TRACT; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPACE PERCEPTION; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84938416203     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4056     Document Type: Article

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