Topographic organization of the basal forebrain projections to the perirhinal, postrhinal, and entorhinal cortex in rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 524, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2503-2515

  Kondo, Hideki ^a   Zaborszky, Laszlo ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cholinergic and noncholinergic neurons; globus pallidus; medial septum; parahippocampal region; retrograde tracing; substantia innominata; vertical and horizontal limbs of diagonal band

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL FOREBRAIN; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PERIRHINAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SUBSTANTIA INNOMINATA;

EID: 84976522663     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23967     Document Type: Article

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