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Ultrastructure of synapses in the upper layers of the cat cerebral cortex after application of strychnine

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Laboratory for Brain Ultrastructure Studies (Director I. L. Lazriev, Doctor of Biological Sciences), I. S. Beritashvili Institute of Physiology, Georgian Academy of Sciences. Tbilisi. Translated from Morfologiya, Vol. 111, No. 1, pp. 18–24, January–February, 1997.

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Kutateladze, I.I., Lazriev, I.L. Ultrastructure of synapses in the upper layers of the cat cerebral cortex after application of strychnine. Neurosci Behav Physiol 28, 304–311 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02462961

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