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Synapses, scaling and homeostasis in vivo

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A recently identified plasticity mechanism—'synaptic scaling'—is now shown to operate in vivo to promote the stability of network function in the face of changing input activity.

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Figure 1: Schematic representation of the Desai et al. findings5.

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