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. 2002 Sep;83(3):1368–1373. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(02)73907-6

New and corrected simulations of synaptic facilitation.

Victor Matveev 1, Arthur Sherman 1, Robert S Zucker 1
PMCID: PMC1302235  PMID: 12202362

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