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Development and evolution: two determinants of cortical connectivity.
Progress in brain research - 1 Jan 2011
Innocenti Giorgio M
Abstract excerpt
The production of genotypic and phenotypic diversity (differentiation) is the final outcome of both development and evolution, of nervous systems and of their components. Cortical axons, in particular, differentiate into a variety of phenotypes which are responsible for computational transformations of messages exchanged among neurons. One aspect of this differentiation concerns axon diameters whose diversity in...
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