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Neuronal organization of fast- and slow-conducting components of the pyramidal system

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A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 534–549, September–October, 1978.

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Pilyavskii, A.I. Neuronal organization of fast- and slow-conducting components of the pyramidal system. Neurophysiology 10, 393–406 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063217

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