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Original Article

Efficacy of Acupuncture and Identification of Tear Protein Expression Changes Using iTRAQ Quantitative Proteomics in Rabbits

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Pages 886-894 | Received 16 Mar 2011, Accepted 26 Jun 2011, Published online: 27 Sep 2011

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