Inside the brain of a neuron

EMBO Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 886-892

  Sidiropoulou, Kyriaki ^a   Pissadaki, Eleftheria Kyriaki ^b   Poirazi, Panayiota ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NERVE CELL; CALCULATION; CELL TYPE; DENDRITE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; DROSOPHILA; FORECASTING; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; REGENERATION; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33749507679     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400789     Document Type: Review

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