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A D Gerasev1, G A Sviatash, S N Lukanina

  • 1Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, 630126, 28 Viluiskaya St., Russia.

Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal Imeni I.M. Sechenova
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