The Morpho/Functional Discrepancy in the Cerebellar Cortex: Looks Alone are Deceptive

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 192-198

  Rokni, Dan ^a   Llinas, Rodolfo ^b   Yarom, Yosef ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

climbing fiber; mossy fiber; parallel fibers; Purkinje cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249127626     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.036.2008     Document Type: Review

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