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Modeling Biological Membranes with Circuit Boards and Measuring Electrical Signals in Axons: Student Laboratory Exercises
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Branch input resistance and steady attenuation for input to one branch of a dendritic neuron model

W Rall, J Rinzel

    Biophysical Journal
    |July 1, 1973
    PubMed

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