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Longitudinal Evaluation of Mouse Hind Limb Bone Loss After Spinal Cord Injury using Novel, in vivo, Methodology
Published on: December 7, 2011
John F. Fallon, PhD: fifty years of excellence in limb research and counting
Deneen Wellik1, Xin Sun, Grace Boekhoff-Falk
1University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. dwellik@umich.edu
Abstract
No abstract available in PubMed .
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