title: Mossy fiber pathfinding in multilayer organotypic cultures of rat hippocampal slices.
abstract: 1. Using a novel technique of organotypic cultures, in which two hippocampal slices were cocultured in a bilayer style, we found that the mossy fibers arising from the dentate gyrus grafted onto another dentate tissue grew along the CA3 stratum lucidum of the host hippocampal slice. The same transplantation of a CA1 microslice failed to form a network with the host hippocampus. 2. Thus the type of grafted neurons is important to determine whether they can form an appropriate network after transplantation.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Chemical Pharmacology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Jeong-Ah
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Maki K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nishiyama
authors.forename: Norio
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsuki
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ikegaya
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030801:Animals, Genetically Modified; D018920:Coculture Techniques / Q000379:methods; D019599:Mossy Fibers, Hippocampal / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D016378:Tissue Transplantation / Q000379:methods