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Fundamental Neuroscience, Third Edition
The communication of information between neurons and between neurons and muscles or peripheral organs requires that signals travel over considerable distances. A number of notable scientists have contemplated the nature of this communication through the ages. In the second century ad, the great Greek physician Claudius Galen proposed that “humors” fl owed from the brain to the muscles along hol...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0022-3069
DOI: 10.1097/00005072-199712000-00013