Neuronal communication. Cooperativity of unreliable neurons.
Recent studies show that many presynaptic neurons must cooperate to generate a postsynaptic output, though the number is still just a tiny fraction of all the postsynaptic cell's inputs.
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Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92037.
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