Silent Synapses Speak Up
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*Department of Psychiatry The existence of silent or ineffective synapses in the †Department of Cellular and Molecular spinal cordwas proposed over 20 years ago (Wall, 1977), Pharmacology based on experimentally induced rapid changes in the Department of Physiology ability of afferents to evoke single unit activity. However, University of California a limitation of this approach was that it was impossible San Francisco, California 94143 to distinguish silent synapses from functional ones that simply were not adequate to cause action potential dis-
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997