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Original Article

Proliferation of Primary Sensory Neurons in Adult Rat Dorsal Root Ganglion and the Kinetics of Retrograde Cell Loss after Sciatic Nerve Section

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Pages 139-167 | Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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