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Marble Burying and Nestlet Shredding as Tests of Repetitive, Compulsive-like Behaviors in Mice
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Median canaliform dystrophy of Heller presenting as a body-focused repetitive behaviour
Christopher Jude Pinto1,2, Shadab B Maldar3, Prakash K Wari3
1Department of Family Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA christopher.pinto@wmed.edu.
BMJ Case Reports
|July 31, 2023
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