Physiological properties of central medial and central lateral amygdala neurons.

@article{Martina1999PhysiologicalPO,
  title={Physiological properties of central medial and central lateral amygdala neurons.},
  author={Marzia Martina and S{\'e}bastien Royer and Denis Par{\'e}},
  journal={Journal of neurophysiology},
  year={1999},
  volume={82 4},
  pages={
          1843-54
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6256135}
}
The physiological properties of CE medial and CE lateral amygdala neurons are characterized using whole cell recordings in brain slices maintained in vitro to indicate that the CE nucleus contains several types of neurons endowed with distinct physiological properties.
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