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Tatjana Begenisic1, Maria Spolidoro, Chiara Braschi

  • 1Laboratory of Neurobiology, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy.

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
|December 31, 2011
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Keywords:
Down syndromeGABAergic inhibitionTs65Dn micecerebral plasticityenvironmental enrichment

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