## Developing networks of the chick activity-dependent depression of network excitability. spinal cord become spontaneously active early in de- The interaction between high excitability and depresvelopment and remain so until hatching. Experiments sion results in an equilibrium in which episodes a
Mechanisms underlying spontaneous patterned activity in developing neural circuits
โ Scribed by Blankenship, Aaron G.; Feller, Marla B.
- Book ID
- 109962989
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 749 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-0048
- DOI
- 10.1038/nrn2759
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