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The Sciatic Nerve Cuffing Model of Neuropathic Pain in Mice
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Placebo response in neuropathic pain trials
Steve N Quessy1, Michael C Rowbotham
1qd Consulting, LLC, Durham, USA UCSF Pain Clinical Research Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Pain
|August 19, 2008
Abstract
No abstract available in PubMed .
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