Publication Date:
1996-05-24
Description:
The entorhinal cortex provides the major cortical input to the hippocampus, and both structures have been implicated in memory processes. The dynamics of neuronal circuits in the entorhinal-hippocampal system were studied in slices by optical imaging with high spatial and temporal resolution. Reverberation of neural activity was detected in the entorhinal cortex and was more prominent when the inhibition due to gamma-aminobutyric acid was slightly suppressed. Neural activity was transferred in a frequency-dependent way from the entorhinal cortex to the hippocampus. The entorhinal neuronal circuit could contribute to memory processes by holding information and selectively gating the entry of information into the hippocampus.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Iijima, T -- Witter, M P -- Ichikawa, M -- Tominaga, T -- Kajiwara, R -- Matsumoto, G -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 May 24;272(5265):1176-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience Section, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Ibaraki, Japan.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8638163" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Bicuculline/pharmacology
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Electric Stimulation
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Entorhinal Cortex/*physiology
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GABA Antagonists/pharmacology
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Hippocampus/*physiology
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Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
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In Vitro Techniques
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Male
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Memory/*physiology
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Microscopy, Fluorescence
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Neural Pathways
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Rats
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Rats, Wistar
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Synaptic Transmission/drug effects
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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