Emerging network activity in dissociated cultures of neocortex: Novel electrophysiological protocols and mathematical modeling

Advances in Network Electrophysiology: Using Multi-Electrode Arrays

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 243-273

  Giugliano, Michele ^a   Arsiero, Maura ^b   Darbon, Pascal ^c   Streit, Jürg ^b   Lüscher, Hans Rudolf ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c CNRS   (France)

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EID: 43449137023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/0-387-25858-2_10     Document Type: Chapter

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