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[Modulation of periaqueductal gray neuronal activity by influences of brain stem monoaminergic structures]

A I Piliavskiĭ, V A Iakhnitsa, N V Bulgakova

    Neirofiziologiia = Neurophysiology
    |January 1, 1992
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