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Vibrodissociation of Neurons from Rodent Brain Slices to Study Synaptic Transmission and Image Presynaptic Terminals

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Editorial: Methods for Synaptic Interrogation

Dirk Feldmeyer^1,2, John F Wesseling³, P Jesper Sjöström⁴

¹Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine 10 (INM-10), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany.

Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience

|June 27, 2020

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electrophysiology methods microscopy optogenetics plasticity synapse

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