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What is a synapse?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2011

R. W. Ryall
R. W. Ryall
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Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 2QD, U.K.
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , September 1979 , pp. 435 - 436
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