Robustness and fault tolerance make brains harder to study

BMC Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Srinivasan, Shyam ^a   Stevens, Charles F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; MAMMAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 79959654411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-9-46     Document Type: Note

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