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Marrone, D.F., LeBoutillier, J.C., Petit, T.L. (2005). Morphological Plasticity of the Synapse. In: Stanton, P.K., Bramham, C., Scharfman, H.E. (eds) Synaptic Plasticity and Transsynaptic Signaling. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-25443-9_28
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