mammalian brain
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mammalian
adjective
uk/məˈmeɪ.li.ən/us/məˈmeɪ.li.ən/
relating to mammals (= animals whose female feeds her young on milk from her ...
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brain
noun
uk/breɪn/us/breɪn/
the organ inside the head that controls thought, memory, feelings, ...
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We are not so sure that a single or a few mutations may have produced a fully workingmammalianbrain.
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It is possible to relate properties and mechanisms of long-term synaptic plasticity in themammalianbrainto learning and memory.
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Finally, it has become clear that endocast information and the study of cranial anatomy may provide important clues to the origin of themammalianbrain.
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Finally, although it is not clear exactly whenmammalianbrainexpansion began, fossil evidence indicates that this was a late event in mammaliaform evolution.
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Dendritic spines constitute the post-synaptic compartment of most excitatory synapses inmammalianbrain.
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Ligand-dependent stimulation of introducedmammalianbrainreceptors alters spicule symmetry and other morphogenetic events in sea urchin embryos.
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The differential distribution of glycine transporters in lower vertebrate retinas was similar to that inmammalianbrainand spinal cord.
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The analysis we have done is drawn entirely from information on relativemammalianbrainsizes and neurodevelopmental events.
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A proposed spatial mechanism makes contact with direct recordings of the representations of location and orientation in themammalianbrain.
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Neural organization reviews a large number of neuroanatomic, biological, and neural simulation studies in an attempt to mold a comprehensive view ofmammalianbrainfunction.
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Direct signaling from astrocytes to neurons in cultures ofmammalianbraincells.
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Subventricular zone astrocytes are neural stem cells in the adultmammalianbrain.
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Their cogent analysis is exceptionally powerful and likely to transfigure the current view ofmammalianbrainevolution.
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Establishing order at the systems level inmammalianbrainevolution.
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It is routine inmammalianbraindevelopment for there to be an overabundant outgrowth of neuronal and synaptic elements, which later have to be pruned back for mature brain development.
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Finlay et al. have made a major contribution by demonstrating that large-scale covariance associated with conserved developmental timing has dominatedmammalianbrain-size evolution.
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The assertion that vagal outflow from the nucleus ambiguus is functionally linked to attentional and emotional processing is further supported by structural characteristics of themammalianbrainstem.
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One example of a potential intersection of simulation studies of neural networks and empirical studies ofmammalianbrainsystems pertains to the developmental process of network pruning.
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