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cerebrocortex en · NOUN

Etymology

From cerebro- + cortex.

Meanings

  1. cerebral cortex
    • In the cerebrocortex, anoxia leads to suppression of spontaneous electrical activity (i.e., spike arrest) [11, 12 ], silencing of AMPA and NMDA receptors [13 –16 ], and large GABA releases during anoxia that activate an inhibitory postsynaptic shunt and prevent presynaptic glutamate release [17, 18 ]. 2015 July 6, “Transcriptomic Responses of the Heart and Brain to Anoxia in the Western Painted Turtle”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

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