Diabetic hyperglycemia reduces Ca permeability of extrasynaptic AMPA receptors in AII amacrine cells
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Áurea Castilho, Eirik Madsen, António F. Ambrósio, Margaret L. Veruki, and Espen Hartveit Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (IBILI), Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences (CNC.IBILI) Consortium, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal; and Association for Innovation and Biomedical Research on Light and Image, Coimbra, Portugal
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