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Golding NL, Spruston N (1998)
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Dendritic can fire sodium spikes that can precede somatic action potentials (APs), the probability and amplitude of which depend on previous synaptic and firing history. Some dendritic spikes could occur in the absense of somatic APs, indicating that their propagation to soma is unreliable