A Novel Mechanism for the Grid-to-Place Cell Transformation Revealed by Transgenic Depolarization of Medial Entorhinal Cortex Layer II

Neuron

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1480-1492.e6

  Kanter, Benjamin R ^a,b   Lykken, Christine M ^a,b   Avesar, Daniel ^b   Weible, Aldis ^b   Dickinson, Jasmine ^b   Dunn, Benjamin ^a   Borgesius, Nils Z ^a   Roudi, Yasser ^a   Kentros, Clifford G ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

chemogenetic; grid cells; hippocampus; medial entorhinal cortex; place cells; remapping; spatial memory; transgenic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRING RATE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX; MEDIAL ENTORHINAL CORTEX LAYER II; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GRID CELL; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACE CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FEMALE; GRID CELLS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PLACE CELLS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 85016022512     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.03.001     Document Type: Article

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