Biophysical properties of brain extracellular space explored with ion-selective microelectrodes, integrative optical imaging and related techniques

Electrochemical Methods for Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 167-204

  Hrabĕtová, Sabina ^a   Nicholson, Charles ^a  

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

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