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Use of a Piglet Model for the Study of Anesthetic-induced Developmental Neurotoxicity AIDN: A Translational Neuroscience Approach
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Monkey in the Middle: Translational Studies of Pediatric Anesthetic Exposure
Mark G Baxter1, Maria C Alvarado
1From the Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York (M.G.B.); and Division of Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience, Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Atlanta, Georgia (M.C.A.).
Anesthesiology
|October 18, 2016
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