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Increasing plasticity and functional recovery of the lesioned spinal cord

Martin E Schwab1

  • 1Department of Neuromorphology, Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland. schwab@hifo.unizh.ch

Progress in Brain Research
|November 21, 2002
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