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Hui-Si Yang1, David H Mauki2, Yue-Xiang Zheng3

  • 1Department of Anesthesiology, Institute of Neurological Disease, Translational Neuroscience Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China; Department of Neurology and National Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Research Base, The Affiliated Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China.

Pharmacological Research
|May 22, 2025
PubMed

Keywords:
AnalgesicNeuropathic painTerpenoidsTraditional Chinese Medicine

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