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Profound seasonal changes in brain size and architecture in the common shrew

The seasonal changes in brain size of some shrews represent the most drastic reversible transformation in the mammalian central nervous system known to date. Brain mass decreases 10–26% from summer to winter and regrows 9–16% in spring, but the underlying structural changes at the cellular level are...

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Autores principales: Lázaro, Javier, Hertel, Moritz, Sherwood, Chet C., Muturi, Marion, Dechmann, Dina K. N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5995987/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29663134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00429-018-1666-5