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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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Autores principales: Hecker, Alexander, Schulze, Wolfram, Oster, Jakob, Richter, David O., Schuster, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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