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Meningeal cells can communicate with astrocytes by calcium signaling

B Grafstein1, S Liu, M L Cotrina

  • 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA.

Annals of Neurology
|January 13, 2000
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