Equal numbers of neuronal and nonneuronal cells make the human brain an isometrically scaled‐up primate brain

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  The Journal of comparative neurology

• Publication date

  2009-04-10

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1002/cne.21974PMID 19226510
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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