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A Piglet Model of Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy

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Abhijeet Roy¹, Kirti M Naranje¹, Kausik Mandal²

¹Department of Neonatology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.

|September 1, 2022

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