Ephaptic interactions within a chemical
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Maarten Kamermans; Iris Fahrenfort
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Article
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2004
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The two best-known types of cell-cell communication are chemical synapses and electrical synapses, which are formed by gap junctions. A third, less well known, form of communication is ephaptic transmission, in which electric fields generated by a specific neuron alter the excitability of neighborin