Functional architecture of the rat parasubiculum

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 2289-2301

  Tang, Qiusong ^a   Burgalossi, Andrea ^b   Ebbesen, Christian Laut ^a   Sanguinetti Scheck, Juan Ignacio ^a   Schmidt, Helene ^a   Tukker, John J ^a,c   Naumann, Robert ^a,d   Ray, Saikat ^a   Preston Ferrer, Patricia ^b   Schmitz, Dietmar ^c   Brecht, Michael ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Border cell; Head direction cell; Medial entorhinal cortex; Parasubiculum; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; NEUROBIOTIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PARASUBICULUM; PRESUBICULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBICULUM; THALAMUS ANTERIOR NUCLEUS; THETA RHYTHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ELECTRODE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CALBINDINS; DENDRITIC SPINES; ELECTRODES; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; THALAMUS; THETA RHYTHM;

EID: 84958786994     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3749-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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