Brief Communications Concurrent Maturation of Inner Hair Cell Synaptic Ca Influx and Auditory Nerve Spontaneous Activity around Hearing Onset in Mice
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Aaron B. Wong ( ),1,3,4 Zhizi Jing ( ),1,2,3,4 Mark A. Rutherford,1 Thomas Frank,1 Nicola Strenzke,1,2,3 and Tobias Moser1,3,5,6 1InnerEarLab, 2Auditory Systems Physiology Group, Department of Otolaryngology, and 3Collaborative Research Center 889, University Medical Center Göttingen, D-37099 Göttingen, Germany, 4International Max Plank Research School for Neuroscience, Göttingen Graduate School for Neuroscience, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany, and 5Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and 6Center for Nanoscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain, University of Göttingen, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany
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تاریخ انتشار 2013