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Brain Research

Volume 99, Issue 2, 5 December 1975, Pages 349-353
Brain Research

A proportional relationship between peripheral innervation density and cortical neuron number in the somatosensory system of the mouse

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    Supported by PHS grant NS 10244.

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    We thank Drs. M. Willard, D. Gottlieb, N. Daw, W. M. Cowan and P. Clarke for their comments on the manuscript, M. L. Dierker for statistics, M. W. Rhoades for photography, and J. Hake for illustration.

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