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Removing a single neuron in a vertebrate brain forever abolishes an essential behavior
The giant Mauthner (M) cell is the largest neuron known in the vertebrate brain. It has enabled major breakthroughs in neuroscience but its ultimate function remains surprisingly unclear: An actual survival value of M cell-mediated escapes has never been supported experimentally and ablating the cel...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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National Academy of Sciences
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7022180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32001507 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918578117 |