The medial prefrontal cortex-lateral entorhinal cortex circuit is essential for episodic-like memory and associative object-recognition

Hippocampus

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 633-645

  Chao, Owen Y ^a   Huston, Joseph P ^a   Li, Jay Shake ^b   Wang, An Li ^a   de Souza Silva, Maria A ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Entorhinal cortex; Episodic memory; Object recognition; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; N METHYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EPISODIC MEMORY; HEMISPHERE; HISTOLOGY; LATERAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RECOGNITION; OPEN FIELD TEST; PLACE PREFERENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INJURIES; MAZE TEST; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL MEMORY; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY, EPISODIC; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84949032925     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22547     Document Type: Article

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