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Once it became clear that excitable cells generate significant electrical discharges, the idea that cell-to-cell communication is normally mediated by electrical currents came very naturally. Originally, such a mechanism was not conceived as requiring any specialized low resistance junctions, and electrical transmission was thus thought to be the predominant method of junctional transmission (Eccles, 1936).
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Krnjević, K., Dalkara, T., Yim, C. (1986). Synchronization of Pyramidal Cell Firing by Ephaptic Currents in Hippocampus in Situ . In: Schwarcz, R., Ben-Ari, Y. (eds) Excitatory Amino Acids and Epilepsy. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 203. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7971-3_31
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