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A Murine Model of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury to Study Post-lesional Respiratory Neuroplasticity
Published on: May 28, 2014
Teaching NeuroImage: Bilateral Nucleus Tractus Solitarius Lesions in Neurogenic Respiratory Failure
Bindu Parayil Sankaran1, Saskia B Wortmann2, Michel A Willemsen2
1From the Genetic Metabolic Disorders Service (B.P.S., S.B.), Western Sydney Genetics Program, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney; The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School (B.P.S.), Sydney Medical School, The Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, NSW, Australia; Department of Pediatric Neurology (S.B.W., M.A.W.), Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands; Department of Pediatrics (S.B.W.), University Children's Hospital, Salzburg, Austria; and Discipline of Genetic Medicine (S.B.), Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. bindu.parayilsankaran@health.nsw.gov.au.
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