Sites of action potential generation in cultured vertebrate neurons
Brain ResearchPublished 1 December 1983
Thomas G. Smith
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The somata of mouse tissue cultured mouse dorsal root ganglion cells and spinal cord neurons and the dendrites of spinal Cord neurons do not actively generate action potentials.
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The somata of mouse tissue cultured mouse dorsal root ganglion cells and spinal cord neurons and the dendrites of spinal cord neurons do not actively generate action potentials.
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