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Current compensation in neuronal homeostasis
1Volen Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454, USA.
Neuron
|January 16, 2003
Abstract:
How do neurons maintain stable intrinsic properties over long periods of time as the channels that govern excitability turn over in the membrane? In this issue of Neuron, MacLean et al. argue that homeostatic regulation of intrinsic activity can occur by an activity-independent mechanism.