Neocortical cell classes are flexible entities

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 121-134

  Steriade, Mircea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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ANIMAL CELL; CONSCIOUSNESS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; THALAMOCORTICAL TRACT;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0742323529     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1325     Document Type: Review

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