Synapses: Glia help synapses form and function

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages

  Smith, Stephen J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; GLIA; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEUROGLIA; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032567834     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70099-5     Document Type: Review

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