The zebrafish brain in research and teaching: A simple in vivo and in vitro model for the study of spontaneous neural activity

American Journal of Physiology - Advances in Physiology Education

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 188-196

  Vargas, R ^a   Johannesdottir I P ^a   Sigurgeirsson, B ^a   thorsteinsson, H ^a   Karlsson, K A E ^a  

^a REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Development; Extracellular recordings; Neural circuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958694502     PISSN: 10434046     EISSN: 15221229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/advan.00099.2010     Document Type: Article

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