Electrophysiological assessment of synaptic transmission in brain slices

Methods in Alcohol-Related Neuroscience Research

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 191-218

  Weiner, Jeff L ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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