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Effect of gap junctions on the firing patterns and synchrony for different external inputs in the striatal

Mingming Zhang1, Zongya Zhao1, Ping He2

  • 1The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University; National Engineering Research Center of Health Care and Medical Devices, Xi'an Jiaotong University Branch, Xi'an 710049, P.R. China.

Bio-Medical Materials and Engineering
|September 18, 2014
PubMed

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Networkfast-spiking interneuronsfiring ratesmall-worldsynchronization

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