Sparse activity of identified dentate granule cells during spatial exploration

eLife

Volumn 5, Issue OCTOBER2016, 2016, Pages

  Diamantaki, Maria ^a   Frey, Markus ^a   Berens, Philipp ^a   Preston Ferrer, Patricia ^a   Burgalossi, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL POPULATION; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; SPIKE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WAVEFORM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DENTATE GYRUS; NEURONS; RATS; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84992623621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.20252.001     Document Type: Article

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