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duaneb on Aug 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control...

I wonder what the functional difference is between rat brain cells and human brain cells.

mercuryrising on Aug 9, 2012 [–]

The cells are essentially identical.

This is a fundamental question when doing rat studies, you would like the regions of the brain your are affecting in the rat to be similar to the regions you would find in a human brain.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/genetics/ne...

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