Formation of mossy fibre connections between hippocampal transplants and the brain of adult host rats.
Hippocampal primordia can survive transplantation into adult rat hippocampi. The transplants differentiate and form mossy fibre connections with host pyramidal cells, while mossy fibre projections from the host can innervate transplants.
D000818:Animals; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000196:embryology / Q000637:transplantation*; D051381:Rats