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Electrophysiology on Isolated Brainstem-spinal Cord Preparations from Newborn Rodents Allows Neural Respiratory Network Output Recording
Published on: November 19, 2015
Models of neuronal bursting behavior: implications for in-vivo versus in-vitro respiratory rhythmogenesis
I A Rybak1, W M St John, J F Paton
1School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
|December 4, 2001
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