Central synaptic integration: linear after all?
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Unitary synaptic currents in hippocampus show small variability. Experimental evidence suggests that the neuron is endowed with mechanisms to reduce location-dependent differences in amplitude and time course of synaptic events, contributing to small variability. These mechanisms may allow the neuron to count individual quanta and thereby linearize integration of unitary events.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- News in physiological sciences : an international journal of physiology produced jointly by the International Union of Physiological Sciences and the American Physiological Society
دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002