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Raphael P Ricci1, Carlie L Cullen2,3

  • 1Mater Research Institute-The University of Queensland, Translational Research Institute, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|October 31, 2026
PubMed

Keywords:
Action potentialAcute brain slicesAxon physiologyCompound action potentialsConduction velocityCorpus callosumElectrophysiologyMyelinNeural circuits

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