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Morphofunctional characteristics of spinal cord neurons after single integrative motor loads

A G Kochetkov1, E R Erastov

  • 1Department of Normal Anatomy, Nizhnii Novgorod Medical Academy.

Neuroscience and Behavioral Physiology
|November 6, 2004
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