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Neuromodulation by GABA converts a relay into a coincidence detector

Soham Chanda1, Matthew A Xu-Friedman

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, 109 Cooke Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.

Journal of Neurophysiology
|August 13, 2010
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