Pig Hippocampus (IMAGE)

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Pig Hippocampus

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A comparison of the laminar structure in the pig and the rat hippocampus revealed conservation of the layered structure, with a remarkably small increase in the overall layer width given that the pig brain is 50X larger in mass. Recordings using a laminar silicone probe with 32 electrode channels half the width of a human hair revealed laminar electrophysiology and single neuron activity with features of both rodent and primate hippocampus (electrode photo courtesy of NeuroNexus Technologies).

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Ulyanova et al., <i>eNeuro</i> (2018)

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