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Electrophysiological Measurements and Analysis of Nociception in Human Infants
Published on: December 20, 2011
Reply to R. Kebudi et al
Julie Tsu-Yu Wu1, Daniel H Kwon1, Michael Glover1
1Julie Tsu-Yu Wu, MD, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Daniel H. Kwon, MD, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Michael Glover, MD, Solomon Henry, MS,Douglas Wood, MS, and Daniel Rubin, MD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Vadim Koshkin, MD, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; and Lidia Schapira, MD, and Sumit A. Shah, MD, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
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