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Functional and Morphological Assessment of Diaphragm Innervation by Phrenic Motor Neurons
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[Stereometric model of respiration with diaphragm electrostimulation]

V I Petukhov, V I Glukhov, S M Golachev

    Meditsinskaia Tekhnika
    |January 1, 1994
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