Interspike intervals under the constraint of linear synaptic integration and background synaptic activity
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Synaptic noise and other sources of randomness in motoneuron interspike intervals.
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1471-2202
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-p239