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Synapse Discharge by Single Fibre in Mammalian Visual System

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FOLLOWING a single brief electrical shock applied to the optic nerve in the cat there is, from the lowest levels of stimulation, an approximately linear relation between the amplitudes of the pre- and post-synaptic responses recorded in the lateral geniculate body1. This was taken to indicate that only a small number of optic tract fibres are needed to discharge a geniculate cell.

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    P. O. BISHOP, W. BURKE & R. DAVIS

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BISHOP, P., BURKE, W. & DAVIS, R. Synapse Discharge by Single Fibre in Mammalian Visual System. Nature 182, 728–730 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/182728b0

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