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Closing the Gap
Author(s) -
Gennaro Susan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 1527-6546
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2010.01372.x
Subject(s) - closing (real estate) , citation , computer science , library science , political science , law
Signalling through electrical synapses that are formed by gap junctions between neurons is important in the development of the mammalian central nervous system. Neuronal gap junctions are abundant immediately after birth, but subsequently decrease in number and remain at a low level, being confined to specific subsets of neurons in adults.