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Formation of cortical inhibition in ontogenesis

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Analysis of the literature on the development of cortical inhibition suggests that synaptic inhibition of cerebral cortical neurons arises almost simultaneously with the onset of their background activity. All types of cortical inhibition operate simultaneously since the emergence of inhibitory processes. Thus, the basic mechanisms of cortical inhibition in mature cerebral cortex begin to function since cortex activation at the earliest stages of ontogenesis.

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Original Russian Text © A.G. Guseynov, 2013, published in Zhurnal Evolyutsionnoi Biokhimii i Fiziologii, 2013, Vol. 49, No. 3, pp. 180–186.

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Guseynov, A.G. Formation of cortical inhibition in ontogenesis. J Evol Biochem Phys 49, 275–282 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0022093013030018

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