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Evaluation of Cerebral Blood Flow Autoregulation in the Rat Using Laser Doppler Flowmetry
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Disordered cholinergic neurotransmission and dysautoregulation after acute cerebral infarction

E O Ott, J Abraham, J S Meyer

    Stroke
    |March 1, 1975
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