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Andres Barria1

  • 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA. barria@uw.edu.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|February 2, 2019
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Keywords:
Brain slicesGlutamate receptorsOrganotypic culturesSynaptic physiologySynaptic transmission

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